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Heritage Auctions are to put up for auction the original Frank Miller inked artwork for the cover to second issue of The Dark Knight Returns A previous splash page from the series went for just shy of half a million dollars two years ago. It's expected to go for over half a million dollars in August[...]

Steven Grant adapting more of Frank Millers' Robocop scripts, and a reprint of Avatar's original series and Herobear And The Kid! 3 GUNS #1 (OF 6) (W) Steven Grant (A) Emilio Laiso (CA) Rafael Albuquerque THE SEQUEL TO 2 GUNS, NOW A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE FROM UNIVERSAL PICTURES! Trench was a deepcover DEA agent Steadman was an undercover Naval[...]

A few years ago, Avatar Press published a Robocop comic based on Frank Miller's original screenplay for Robocop 2, adapted by Steven Grant, drawn by Juan Jose Ryp with Miller doing covers. But that was then And now Boom! are publishing a new Robocop comic… also written by Frank Miller and Steven Grant But now with[...]

My favorite part of this story is BC forumer Brandon ZK Olmstead predicting it exactly, two months ago in a popular forum thread in which BC forum artists

And this conman of comics has managed to con bigtime art dealer Mike Burkey – for a second time. We reported last year how Burkey was conned into buying Todd McFarlane and Art Adams sketches that were not by Todd or by Art. Burkey tells me that he was contacted by someone looking to sell original art,[...]

She is also the partner of Frank Miller. I've been trying to get in touch with Kimberly for some time without joy It's possible this might be why. Joanna Gallardo-Mills, formerly employed as an executive coordinator for Miller, has filed a lawsuit with the Manhattan Supreme Court She is alleging that she was persecuted by Cox during her[...]

Frank Miller has a huge week, with issues of The Dark Knight Returns, Dark Knight Strikes Again and All Star Batman & Robin coming in at #1 in the UK, Australia, Mexico, Greece, Germany and Israel Add to that total Miller chart domination holding the majority of the spots in the UK, the US, Canada,[...]

"What would fan reaction be to a Justice League movie with Frank Miller's name attached?" The forum mostly disagrees with me. Most-Read Comic Stories Today: What Would Be Your Reaction To Frank Miller's Justice League?  Undercover Warner Bros marketing people walk into a comic shop Stop me if you've heard this one The name of the shop has[...]

The interlopers were really interested in what obscure characters were related to the League… and then they asked the big one. "What would fan reaction be to a Justice League movie with Frank Miller's name attached?" Bleeding Cool message board commentators, you have been criticised by some, mocked by others, becoming a byword in some places for[...]

Welcome to the latest comics Kickstarter project with a majorly media-friendly pitch. Frank Miller Vs Occupy Wall Street Vs Zombies. They are only after $450 And already have $150 from one donor Will you be the second? And while they are funding the first issue here, they are also funding the eventual graphic novel collection – and letting[...]

And this week's regular delve into its archive is our chat with comics legend Frank Miller (Batman, Holy Terror), published in TRIPWIRE Volume 4 #8, way back in December 2001… [issuu width=420 height=300 backgroundColor=%23222222 documentId=120909082753-0c03e4e787914f8283f05f8d622ceb91 name=frank_miller_dksa_tripwire_vol_4_9_dec01-jan02 username=richjohnston tag=frank unit=px v=2] [...]

Now we have Frank Miller running for Vereador in Sao Paulo in Brazil Basically, that's a town councilman. "Something tells me to stop with the town I don't listen to it…"   We've had Paul Ryan running for Vice President of the USA Now we have Frank Miller running for Vereador in Sao Paulo in Brazil[...]

 As the debate in the forum suggests, it's not an exact match to the Frank Miller original in terms of tone and texture, and I really wasn't expecting it to be But there's enough evidence of an intent to be faithful to the spirit of the source material here that I will be checking this[...]

I mean I knew it would happen, but this was a quick one. The Washington Examiner is asking whether or not the Denver Dark Knight Massacre was based on a scene in The Dark Knight Returns by Frank Miller, the tone of which has informed much of the current Christian Bale Batman trilogy, as well as[...]

Moebius not only collaborated with Darrow in 1984 on City of Fire, but he also was responsible for Darrow meeting Frank Miller Darrow showed some clips from the Shaolin Cowboy animated movie he co-directed in Japan, titled Shaolin Cowboy in The Tomb of Doom The clip opened with the Shaolin Cowboy battling a poodle and[...]

Long before Holy Terror, long before Dark Knight or Year One, Frank Miller drew a strip for his high school newspaper. Here are a couple from 1972, uploaded to Reddit and reassembled by Bleeding Cool… The Fixer is the name of the Batman-replacement lead in Holy Terror I got in an argument about that book[...]

I'm thinking that Rob Liefeld is basically courting Frank Miller through his comics They'd make a lovely couple. From Hawk And Dove #6. From The Dark Knight Falls In Swipe File we present two or more images that resemble each other to some degree They may be homages, parodies, ironic appropriations, coincidences or works of the lightbox[...]

On the right the Frank Miller cover to Rom The Space Knight #17. Frank Miller has often been a point of reference for Rob Liefeld, especially on X-Force It's nice to see that tradition continue… In Swipe File we present two or more images that resemble each other to some degree They may be homages, parodies, ironic[...]

Legal and financial issues saw the game abandoned in 2009 after switching developers. BTW, not the only Frank Miller-related story we'll be running today… Nixel Pixel have hit the motherload, with a bunch of in game visuals and[...]

There have been a few worrisome notes expressed by a number of people over DC's recent handling of archive items. From missing words in Absolute Kingdom

Here's the variant cover for John Byrne's new IDW comic, Trio, this one inked by Joe Sinnott. Each issue will have  a variant cover inked by another

If you're looking for a fight back against comic book piracy, these volumes are it. And their soon-to-be-properly-announced next edition was announced at ComicsPRO in Dallas, a reprinting of original artwork from Daredevil: Born Again by Frank Miller and David Mazzuchelli. The story from 1986 defined the character greatly and was seen by many as a companion[...]

The above is a commission by Frank Miller, recreating the splash page from The Dark Knight, below, for one Felix Lu Such a detailed commission from Miller, it would be quite a rarity these days and rather expensive. Albeit not quite as expensive as buying the original art, recently selling for almost half a million dollars. [...]

But this is French artist Gilles Roussel, better known as Boulet, and his response to Frank Miller's infamous blog post about the Occupy Wall Street protests. And just how it was drawn… It's been a little while coming But this is French artist Gilles Roussel, better known as Boulet, and his response to Frank Miller's infamous[...]

That's a full day. Most-Read Comic Stories Today: Free Comic Book Day – The New 52 To The Old Avengers 12.1 Free Comic Book Day have announced the 2012 Gold level of free comic books, that will be available in all participating stores on May the 5th next year. Alan Moore Reacts To Frank Miller – "We Have Diametrically[...]

Last week, when the Frank Miller blog exploded across all known media (to the extent that he won't answer questions about it right now), film director and writer Alex Cox recalled in comments to a Guardian piece picking and choosing from Miller's past work to back up his curent stance; "Miller was ever thus I was[...]

If this response to Frank Miller's comments on Occupy Wall Street four days ago (was that all it was?) is a little slower, then that's because Richard Pace had to draw it And as we know, this kind of thing takes time… If this response to Frank Miller's comments on Occupy Wall Street four days[...]

Reactions to Frank Miller's blog post on the Occupy movement continue to echo around the comics internet, an industry-centric slice of the larger discussion on the issues involved There's also a pretty interesting subtext here about the blurred distinctions between art, speech, and action which may be just as valuable as the central discussion. Most-Read[...]

But Mark Millar, fan of Frank Miller, has some things to say about the reaction from some to Frank Miller's recent blog post He writes on Millarworld; It's strange to watch your favourite writer getting strips torn off him for a couple of days. Politically, I disagree with his analysis, but that's besides the point[...]

A significant player in the comics industry in the 1980s and into the 1990s, editing the Uncanny X-Men and writing Longshot and Daredevil, amongst other projects, Nocenti spent her downtime from the industry over the past decade working in decidedly more political realms, including doing work for MoveOn.org and for The Nation. Nocenti's view is the[...]