Push the Wall - by Frank Miller (Hardcover)

Book Synopsis

From the all-time bestselling mind behind Batman: The Dark Knight Returns, Daredevil, 300, and Sin City, Push the Wall is part memoir, part master class for budding artists and writers by one of the greatest living creators whose work has influenced pop culture for decades.

Frank Miller is our greatest living comic book writer and artist.

Frank Miller shares his life, and through, his artistic process. Miller's artistic influence is evident in so very much of our popular culture, perhaps most notably with Batman--every film adaptation from the past forty years has been influenced by Miller's work with the dark knight.

Simply, Frank Miller has transformed the way comics are told.

Here, Frank's mix of autobiographical lessons evokes Patti Smith's Just Kids as it weaves his struggles as a seventeen-year-old kid fresh from Vermont into a seedy 1970s New York City with his eventual success on reimagining Daredevil and Wolverine. From there to Miller's rescue and revitalization of Batman, to his time in Hollywood, the Sin City comics and film adaptations he would codirect, and the retelling of the Spartans' last stand in 300. Miller, by constantly challenging himself as an artist and writer on his terms, built an iconoclastic career.

With over a dozen illustrations of Miller's art, Push the Wall is the work of his career--it is a masterclass as it encapsulates his life in sixteen lessons for the aspiring creative reader.

Review Quotes

Praise for Frank Miller

"The Michelangelo of our time." -George Lucas

"Probably the finest piece of comic art ever published." -Stephen King on Batman: The Dark Knight Returns

"Frank Miller doing his Daredevil magic...his weird, scary New York...made me want to write." -Colson Whitehead

"The legendary comic writer/artist's influence can be felt everywhere." -Entertainment Weekly

"[Miller] changed the course of comics." -Rolling Stone

"Film noir in cartoon panels." -Vanity Fair

*"[An] exuberant memoir. Gorgeously illustrated with panels from Miller's work and written in elegantly two-fisted prose, this is a wildly entertaining account that his fans will savor."-- "Publisher's Weekly, starred review"

About the Author

Frank Miller is an award-winning comic book writer, artist, novelist, inker, screenwriter, film director, and producer best known for Daredevil, Batman: The Dark Knight Returns, Sin City, and 300, among others. He also coauthored with Tom Wheeler the young adult novel Cursed, which was adapted to a Netflix show. His projects have been nominated for the Palme d'Or and have won the Harvey and Eisner Awards, including those for Best Writer/Artist, Best Graphic Novel Reprint, Best Cartoonist, Best Cover Artist, Best Limited Series, and Best Short Story. In 2015, Miller was inducted into the Will Eisner Award Hall of Fame for his lifetime contribution to the industry. Miller resides in New York City. More can be found online at FrankMillerInk.com and @FrankMillerInk.