{{Infobox comics creator | name = Frank Miller | image = FrankMiller JimLee DC's 2018PopUpShop2.jpg | caption = Miller at SXSW 2018 | birth_name = | birth_date = | birth_place = Olney, Maryland, U.S. | nationality = American | area = Writer, penciller, inker, film director | cartoonist = y | write = y | art = | pencil = y | ink = y | edit = | publish = | letter = y | color = | alias = | notable works = The Dark Knight ReturnsBatman: Year OneDaredevilElektraWolverineRonin300Sin City Cursed | awards = Awards | website = frankmillerink.com }} Frank Miller (born January 27, 1957) is an American comic book writer, penciller and inker, novelist, screenwriter, film director, and producer known for his comic book stories and graphic novels such as his run on Daredevil, for which he created the character Elektra, and subsequent Daredevil: Born Again, The Dark Knight Returns, Batman: Year One, Sin City, and 300. Miller is noted for combining film noir and manga influences in his comic art creations. "I realized when I started Sin City that I found American and English comics be too wordy, too constipated, and Japanese comics to be too empty. So I was attempting to do a hybrid". Miller has received every major comic book industry award, and in 2015, he was inducted into the Will Eisner Award Hall of Fame. Miller's feature film work includes writing the scripts for the 1990s science fiction films RoboCop 2 and RoboCop 3, sharing directing duties with Robert Rodriguez on Sin City and Sin City: A Dame to Kill For, producing the film 300, and directing the big screen adaptation of The Spirit. Sin City earned a Palme d'Or nomination. Early life Miller was born in Olney, Maryland, on January 27, 1957, and raised in Montpelier, Vermont, the fifth of seven children of a nurse mother and a carpenter/electrician father. His family was Irish Catholic. Career Miller grew up a comics fan; a letter he wrote to Marvel Comics was published in The Cat #3 (April 1973). His first published work was at Western Publishing's Gold Key Comics imprint, received at the recommendation of comics artist Neal Adams, to whom a fledgling Miller, after moving to New York City, had shown samples and received much critique and occasional informal lessons. Though no published credits appear, he is tentatively credited with the