Already in this set of posts we’ve looked at Frank Miller’s career before The Dark Knight Returns (Parts 1 and 2), and performed close readings of that series’ respective four chapters (Parts 3, 4, 5, and 6). And the last time around, in Part 7, we examined the character of Batman both before and after [...]
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Blaise Larmee’s Trophy Economy
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged blaise larmee, The Comics Journal, trophy economy on March 31, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Blaise Larmee has a really compelling opinion piece up at The Comics Journal. He describes the world of book selling (and comic-art-object selling) as a “trophy economy.” He claims that the ease with which we can create and share digital media has separated content from medium, and as such the book has become “a hollow [...]
Reading Frank Miller’s Batman: The Dark Knight Returns, part 1
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged 300, A Contract with God, Batman, Chris Claremont, comics, cyberpunk, Daredevil, DC, Elektra, First Comics, Frank Miller, Gold Key, Goseki Kojima, graphic novels, Harvey Kurtzman, Jenette Kahn, Kazuo Koike, Lone Wolf and Cub, Lynn Varley, manga, Marvel Comics, Robert Crumb, Robert Rodriguez, Ronalds Printing, Ronin, Sin City, The Comics Journal, The Dark Knight Returns, The Spirit, Uncanny X-Men, will eisner, Wolverine, Zack Snyder on January 23, 2010 | 21 Comments »
Part 2 | Part 3 | Part 4 | Part 5 | Part 6 | Part 7 | Part 8 These days, Frank Miller is arguably best-known as a filmmaker. He co-directed Robert Rodriguez’s adaptation of his long-running comic Sin City (1991–present), which he followed with his own peculiar 2008 adaptation of Will Eisner’s classic [...]
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