Push the Wall
My Life, Writing, Drawing and the Art of Storytelling
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- Verwacht op 16 jul. 2026
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- € 16,99
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YOU KNOW BATMAN.
BUT DO YOU KNOW FRANK MILLER?
In Push the Wall, Frank Miller chronicles the creation of his most iconic works such as Sin City, 300, Ronin, Daredevil, Wolverine and notably, Batman: The Dark Knight Returns, which, alongside Batman: Year One served as the foundation for all Batman film and animated adaptations for the past forty years.
Miller reveals how he got his first breaks, how he poured his own life into his darkly realistic characters, how he fought against comic book censorship of the early 1980s, and how he introduced manga-style storytelling to US readers decade before popular anime and manga began tiptoeing into pop culture. Miller transformed the way comics are told and this is how he did it.
Push the Wall is a masterclass in the art of storytelling and an intimate look inside the mind and life of a creative genius. With over a dozen illustrations, chosen from seminal moments from Miller’s art, and organised by the sixteen lessons that meant most to Miller, this reveals the man behind some of the most exciting stories of our age.
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Miller, creator of such celebrated comics series as the Dark Knight Returns and 300, meditates on the forces behind his art in this exuberant memoir. The episodic narrative revisits Miller's career milestones, including breaking into the comics biz in the gloriously grungy New York City of the 1970s, whose urban squalor and violence infused his artistic sensibility; his triumphant reboot of Batman as a grizzled, cantankerous 50-year-old battling nihilistic perps and a vapid media culture; and a humbling Hollywood gig scripting 1990's Robocop 2 ("Writing a screenplay can be a lot like carefully casting and assembling what you're certain is a beautiful fire hydrant, only to watch a long line of dogs come piss on it"). Sprinkled throughout are revelatory explorations of comics craft, from storytelling rules ("Tell whoever's watching who the hero is, and then get that hero into trouble right quick") to celebrations of the genre's excess ("I adore swirling hair and rumpling trench coat cloth and frothing spittle.... Teeth clenched like psychotic chiclets"). 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. Illus.
