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Creator of Comics : Frank Miller

November 13, 2011 Leave a comment
Date of Birth
27 January 1957, Olney, Maryland, USA

 Biography

Frank Miller was a big comics writer/artist in the 70s and 80s. He wrote and penciled the Marvel series “Daredevil” for a long time. His friend,Klaus Janson, inked. He also wrote two spinoffs about the character “Electra” and did a miniseries about the “X-Men” character “Wolverine”. His hit miniseries “Ronin” was published by DC in the mid-eighties. His greatest success came with DC’s character “Batman”. In 1980, he wrote the acclaimed “Batman” story “Wanted – Santa Claus – Dead or Alive!” for DC Comics. In 1986, his most notable comic-book work, the groundbreaking “Batman: The Dark Knight Returns”, an alternate history story about Batman in a grim future, was published by DC. Miller wrote and penciled. In 1988, he wrote the acclaimed “Batman: Year One”, about Batman’s first year on the job, for DC. In 1996, he wrote “Spawn versus Batman”, a one-shot issue published by DC and Image Comics. He wrote the major motion pictures RoboCop 2 (1990) and RoboCop 3(1993) and did the “Robocop” comic series for a little while.

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Is best known for his grim film-noirish comic book stories using characters like Batman and Daredevil as well as original works like Sin City.

Often features characters with a physical or mental affliction. Both Miho and Kevin from Sin City are mute, whilst Marv’s mother, Matt Murdock/Daredevil, Stick and Manute are all blind. Both Sin City’s Hartigan and Batman in Dark Knight Returns suffer heart problems.

Often features characters who are ‘killed’, disfigured or mortally wounded, only to be surgically rebuilt stronger and deadlier than before, eg. Robocop, Dwight, Batman.

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His heroes are often extremely moral individuals surviving in a cruel environment

Unique artwork style which heavily focuses on facial tics

Noir style heavily inspired by Will Eisner

Comics often represent His conservative Political views

Trivia

Writes, draws, and inks all of his Sin City comics.

Has worked for both Marvel Comics and DC Comics.

His comic book series Sin City is on the Dark Horse Comics label.

In mid-2003, a comic book company called Avatar is publishing a comic book series adapting his original screenplay for _Robocop 2 (1990)_, which allegedly had enough subplots and material for several movies.

He claimed in the introduction to “The Dark Knight Returns” that he got the idea of writing of a Batman in his mid 60s from a age crisis he had. He “could stand that his little brother was older than Spider-Man, but that he himself getting older than Batman, was something that had to be stopped.” He was 29 years old, closing up on 30, writing “The Dark Knight Returns.”

Has told in several interviews that he got the inspiration for the “noir and gritty experience” of all his comics (especially Sin City) from noir writers Mickey Spillane, Raymond Chandler and Dashiell Hammett. The pacing was very influenced by the Lone Wolf & Cub manga by Goseki Kojima & Kazuo Koike.

Moved to New York in 1976, when he was 19. Within a week of his arrival he had found work as a comic book artist.

Has said that “The Romantic Manifesto” by Ayn Rand, a book of collective essays about art and romanticism, helped him to determine how he’d go about creating his heroics.

Was approached by New Line Cinema in 1988 to write and direct A Nightmare on Elm Street (2010). He declined due to prior commitments.

Created the comic book character “Elektra” who has gone on to appear in the movies Daredevil (2003) and Elektra (2005), played by Jennifer Garner.

Irish-American.

Personal Quotes

I figured Daredevil must be Catholic because only a Catholic could be both an attorney and a vigilante.

You can’t have virtue without sin. What I’m after is having my characters’ virtues defined by how they operate in a very sinful environment. That’s how you test people.

I was always into noir. When I lived in Vermont I was drawing stuff that looked like an amateur doing ‘Sin City’. When I first got to New York I was swiftly informed that they only did guys in tights.

I realized that I was about to turn 30, and Batman was permanently 29. And I was going to be damned if I was older than Batman.

[about his inspirations] I’m a comic book artist. So I think too myself, what do I like to draw? I like to draw hot chicks, fast cars and cool guys in trench coat. So that’s what I write about.

[on Batman Begins (2005)] “I totally thought they did a damned good job. It was the first “Batman’ movie I’ve genuinely liked. I sat there, I watched it, and I came out of there going, ‘Well done, man.’ Sure, they used my stuff – they used everybody’s stuff, but they used my stuff a lot – but they did it well, and that’s all I care about. It was Batman. What I mean by that is, I thought the character was true. You understand, when I work on a character, I have a very, very hard time seeing anybody else’s interpretation. I get very possessive. But when I went out to see this thing, I said, ‘This is a pretty cool Batman.’ I wasn’t sitting there going, ‘This is a merchandising tool.’ I felt like it really had heart and substance, and Christian Bale with no doubt performed the best Batman I have ever seen”.

Where Are They Now

(2001) Writing and illustrating “Sin City”, a comic series, for Dark Horse; co-writing the script for _Batman: Year One (2011)_, a feature film adaptation of his comic series for Warner Brothers; writing and illustrating “The Dark Knight Strikes Again” for DC, a sequel to “The Dark Knight Returns”; outlining “Jesus!”, a comic-book version of the life of Christ for Dark Horse Maverick.

(2004) Just finished filming Sin City (2005) together with Robert Rodriguez, in late post-production. Also preparing stories for future Sin City graphic novels.

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Have you heard about FAKE MAILER

November 13, 2011 Leave a comment


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Simple Tips to make computer faster

November 13, 2011 Leave a comment

Typical upgrades include installing more memory, purchasing a better motherboard or getting a better processor.

Software optimization, on the other hand, does not require purchasing anything; it only requires that you optimize and fine tune your software set up and installation to make your computer run faster. Here are a few ways to accomplish this type of optimization.

1. Uninstall unneeded applications

        Over the course of your computer’s lifetime you may have installed a bevy of applications, many of which you do not need anymore. If this is the case, then now is the time to get rid of them. This will make your computer run faster, and more efficiently.

Start off by going through your uninstall menu and look for applications that you do not need anymore. These programs will usually have their own uninstall routines that will remove all files and services they may have installed.

Most applications install applications that eat up not only disk space, but valuable RAM. As you computer starts up, these programs start up too, eating precious processor time as well.

Some programs do not have their own uninstall routines. You may have to use custom uninstall applications to remove these files from your computer. Make sure these applications remove both the program and the supporting files it is packaged with. Also make sure that registry entries regarding this application are also removed.

Defrag at all costs

         Run a defragmenter application regularly. Data in a hard disk is not necessarily stored in a contiguous manner. This means that when your hard disks read data, it has to jump from platter to platter, sector to sector just to get a file in its entirety.

If your data is located contiguously, then this problem could be avoided, saving your hard disk valuable read time. And as a result of this effort, your computer could experience faster disk reads and an improvement in computer speeds from 30% up to 100%.

3. Check for Viruses

       Install a handy antivirus to help weed out those pesky codes that could seriously compromise your data’s security, integrity while slowing your computer at the same time. A well-infested computer will typically grind to halt as malicious code use and abuse precious computer resources.

There are many antiviral agents around, aside from installing such, avoid the spread of viruses by making sure you only use removable media that is from verified sources. Also, be careful of the sites you visit as they could contain online malicious code.

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