Frank Miller is one of the most important creators in the comics medium. He was a major influence in drastically changing the superhero genre in the eighties and nineties, first on Daredevil and then with Batman on books like The Dark Knight Returns and Year One. Throw in a beloved run on Wolverine alongside X-Men legend Chris Claremont, and you're left with one of the most impressive bibliographies to ever grace the industry... well, ever.
(On a related note, isn't it weird how Frank Miller stopped writing after 1998? Dead weird really. Oh well.)
After helming those aforementioned comics, as well as a return to Daredevil in 1991 with The Man Without Fear, Miller took on a different task. Film noir was a key influence on the writer and he decided to delve right into the genre with Sin City, a now famous series that combined the genre's best tropes under a unique setting.
Utilising a monochromatic pallet interspersed with brief, violent bursts of colour, Miller found a gripping aesthetic for Sin City, and one that proved popular enough to inspire a feature film in 2005. (Again, isn't it kind of weird they never did a sequel given there were so many other stories to adapt? You would've thought there would've definitely been another.)
WhatCulture's very own resident movie guy, Ewan has been working in the content creation biz for over 10 years now, having started as a freelance contributor to WhatCulture Gaming all the way back in 2015. After graduating with a First-Class Honours in History from Northumbria University in 2017 (where he won a prize for a totally killer dissertation on the Watergate years), Ewan took on the role of Comics Editor at WhatCulture and quickly developed WhatCulture Comics into one of the biggest superhero-focused channels on YouTube. He followed this with a brief hiatus at Screen Rant in 2021, where he worked across the Gaming and Film sections as a writer and editor, before returning to WhatCulture as a Senior Content Producer / Presenter in 2023. He started his own podcast, We Love Dad Movies, in 2022, and has contributed several written pieces to the Eisner-nominated comics website Shelfdust as well.
In his current role, Ewan incorporates his love of cinema, comic books, and history into written pieces and video essays for WhatCulture's Film & TV channel, as well as WhatCulture Gaming and WhatCulture Horror, with a particular focus on nineties-era Dad Movies, old school Westerns, and Golden Age Hollywood Noir. John Carpenter is his fave, and he thinks Batman Beyond should never have been cancelled. If that's your vibe, you'll probably like his stuff.
