| International Standard Book Number |
9781668065297 (hardcover)
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| International Standard Book Number |
1668065290 (hardcover)
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| Personal Name |
Miller, Frank, 1957- author.
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| Title Statement |
Push the wall : my life, writing, drawing, and the art of storytelling / Frank Miller.
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| Edition Statement |
First Saga Press hardcover edition.
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| Production, Publication, Distribution, Manufacture, and Copyright Notice |
New York : Saga Press, 2026.
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| Physical Description |
xix, 202 pages : color illustrations ; 24 cm.
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| Bibliography, Etc. Note |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 200-202).
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| Formatted Contents Note |
Prologue: A letter to my younger self -- Push the wall, defy the code -- Welcome chaos -- Get mugged and fall in love -- Kill off Elektra -- Masterless -- The Dark Knight cometh -- The sword in the stone -- Up, down, and sideways -- Mix it up -- Swimming pools, movie stars -- Headlong into "Sin City" -- Work with P.T. Barnum -- Don't fear the locomotive -- Aspire to "High noon" -- Norman Rockwell, cartoonist -- For the sake of the expedition -- Epilogue: From Vermont to the Louvre... and back to the studio.
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| Summary, Etc. |
"Frank Miller came to New York City in the winter of 1976. 'I was a cold-bellied youngster from cold Vermont, a lot bigger in ambition than prospects.' So begins a guide to creative success by the most influential American cartoonist and writer of our time, whose bestselling work has helped to shape popular culture in comics and film for decades. Frank Miller shares his life and, through it, his artistic process. Miller's artistic influence is evident in much of our popular culture, perhaps most notably with 'Batman,' whose every film adaptation from the past forty years has been influenced by Miller's work. Simply put, Frank Miller has transformed the way comics are told. 'Push the wall''s mix of autobiographical lessons evokes Pattie Smith's 'Just kids' and Stephen King's 'On writing,' as it weaves Miller's struggles as a seventeen-year-old fresh from Vermont in seedy 1970s New York City with his eventual success in reimagining 'Daredevil' and 'Wolverine.' From there Miller recounts his rescue and revitalization of 'Batman,' his time in Hollywood, the 'Sin City' comics and the film adaptations he codirected, and his retelling of the Spartans' last stand in '300.' By constantly challenging himself as an artist and writer, on his terms, Miller built an iconoclastic career, sharing his path so you can begin to find your own"--Inside jacket flap.
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| Subject-Personal Name |
Miller, Frank, 1957-
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| Subject Added Entry - Topical Term |
Graphic novels Authorship.
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| Subject Added Entry - Topical Term |
Journalism.
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| Subject Added Entry - Topical Term |
Storytelling.
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| Subject Added Entry - Topical Term |
Comic books, strips, etc. Authorship.
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| Subject Added Entry - Topical Term |
Authors, American Biography.
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| Subject Added Entry - Topical Term |
Comics artists United States Biography.
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| Subject Added Entry - Geographical Term |
New York (N.Y.) 20th century.
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| Index Term-Genre/Form |
Autobiographies.
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| Index Term-Genre/Form |
Memoirs.
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