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Frank Miller Tells You How He Tells Stories In "Push The Wall"

Frank Miller tells you about his life, and how he tells stories in "Push The Wall"

Published Wed, 08 Oct 2025 17:57:04 -0500

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Discover Frank Miller's storytelling secrets in his new memoir and masterclass Push the Wall.
Learn how Miller's iconic work on Batman, Daredevil, and Sin City shaped modern comics and pop culture.
Follow Miller's journey from a struggling artist in 1970s New York to a comic book legend.
Get inspired with sixteen creative lessons and personal insights for aspiring writers and artists.

Push the Wall: My Life, Writing, Drawing, and the Art of Storytelling by Frank Miller will be published in hardcover on the 14th of July 2026, by S&S/Saga Press in the USA and Canongate Books in the UK. Frank Miller says, "This is my way. May it help you find your own."

Frank Miller Tells You How To Tell Stories In "Push The Wall" — Frank Miller

"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."

"changed the course of comics" Rolling Stone
"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
"I like the bit where he says "Balls nasty"" – Rich Johnston

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