Frank Miller

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.

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.

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. Has claimed 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, Dashiell Hammett. The pacing was very much influenced by the Lone Wolf & Cub manga by Goseki Kojima & Kazuo Koike

Film Noir

a type of film, esp. of the 1940s and 1950s, fatalistic, pessimistic, or cynical in mood and often dealing melodramatically with urban crime and corruption

Some important film noir movies are: Stranger on the Third Floor (1940); The Maltese Falcon (1941) Double Indemnity (1944) The Big Sleep (1946) The Postman Always Rings Twice (1946); Key Largo (1948);Kiss Me Deadly (1955), and Touch of Evil (1958).

Examples of Film Noir

The Big Sleep trailer

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VjJlBnfyiI4

The Dark Knight starred Christian Bale and the late Heath Ledger in the film version

Sin CityThe Movie

Story Synopsis

Four tales of crime adapted from Frank Miller's popular comics, focusing around a muscular brute who's looking for the person responsible for the death of his beloved Goldie, a man fed up with Sin City's corrupt law enforcement who takes the law into his own hands after a horrible mistake, a cop who risks his life to protect a girl from a deformed pedophile, and a hitman looking to make a little cash.

A Dame to Kill For

Sin City