Push the Wall

From the brilliant mind behind Batman: The Dark Knight Returns, Daredevil, 300, and Sin City, comes 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. Millers artistic influence is evident in so very much of our popular culture, perhaps most notably with Batmanevery film adaptation from the past forty years has been influenced by Millers work with the dark knight. Simply, Frank Miller has transformed the way comics are told. Here, Franks mix of autobiographical lessons evokes Patti Smiths 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 Millers 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 Millers art, Push the Wall is the work of his careerit is a masterclass as it encapsulates his life in sixteen lessons for the aspiring creative reader.