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An Evening with Frank Miller on July 18th

Wednesday, July 15, 2026
Frank Miller appears in conversation with director Zack Snyder at the Wilshire Ebell Theater in Los Angeles, CA on Saturday, July 18th at 7pm. Click here for tickets
 
Join the visionary behind some of the most influential graphic novels ever created for a live conversation celebrating his new memoir, Push the Wall, alongside a deep dive into comics, cinema, gritty 1970s New York, artistic rebellion, and the craft behind his iconic storytelling.

The creator of The Dark Knight Returns, Batman Year One and 300 joins us for a deep dive into his life and art, revealing the inspiration behind his iconic comics and his secrets of storytelling.
Frank Miller transformed the way comics are told and reshaped popular culture in America and the world.
 
We will hear about his struggles as a fresh faced seventeen year-old kid in seedy 1970s New York and his success reimagining Daredevil and Wolverine: and of course, his transformation of Batman from a childish has-been into the gritty, noirish hero we love. We will head to Hollywood, hear about the Sin City comics and movies, and his legendary retelling of the Spartans' last stand in 300.
 
We’ll discover how he got his first breaks, how he poured his own life into his darkly realistic characters, how he fought against censorship, and how he introduced manga-style storytelling to US readers decade before anime began tiptoeing into the mainstream.
 
Throughout, Frank will share insights into his artistic process, offering lessons for aspiring writers and artists drawn from a lifetime at the summit of popular storytelling. Don't miss it.

 

Frank Miller
Frank Miller (born January 27, 1957) is an American writer, artist, and film director best known for his dark comic book stories and graphic novels such as Ronin, Daredevil: Born Again, The Dark Knight Returns, Sin City and 300. He also directed the film version of The Spirit, shared directing duties with Robert Rodriguez on Sin City and Sin City: A Dame to Kill For, and produced the film 300. His film Sin City earned a Palme d'Or nomination, and he has received every major comic book industry award. In 2015, Miller was inducted into the Eisner Awards Comic Book Hall of Fame. He created the comic book characters Elektra for Marvel Comics' Daredevil series, and the future version of the Robin character, Carrie Kelly, for DC Comics. 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"