Originally published at: Frank Miller is releasing a sequel to RONIN - Boing Boing
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Has his sobriety rid him of fascistic views? If not I’ll pass, no matter how much talent he has.
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The story underplays the fact that Ronin came out in 1983 and was possibly the first major-market “graphic novel” seen in the US. It’s kind of a big deal.
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Still can’t really compete with Stan Sakai’s Usagi Yojimbo.
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Will Eisner would argue his Contract with God was first.
Though there were other books before that.
Ronin certainly was an earlier one. I have a worn copy I got used, and I remember enjoying it. I am a bit curious if he still has it, though the new Miller stuff seems to be really short on substance and one trick on style. Though art wise, this looks like an improvement!
Still - Dark Knight Returns will always be in my top 5.
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I never read this one, but now I assume it must have been at least one of the primary inspirations for that “Samurai Jack” cartoon since that’s almost exactly the same premise.
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Yeah, that was my response. I know some people are “mean drunks,” but I’ve never heard of a “right-wing asshole drunk.”
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It seems so? I don’t know that he ever explicitly apologized for any of it, but he’s definitely expressed a lot of shame around that period of his life, and acknowledges that pretty much everything he made was shit.
Does he have any regrets? “I don’t want to go back and start erasing books I did,” he replies. “I don’t want to wipe out chapters of my own biography. But I’m not capable of [Holy Terror] again.”
It’s worth noting that whatever his detractors may think of his politics, Miller still happily inveighs against “white, heterosexual family values” and has no interest in defending his views on Occupy Wall Street. “I wasn’t thinking clearly,” he confesses. Does he support Donald Trump? “Real men stay bald,” he says with a grin, lifting his hat to run a hand over his bare scalp.
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If that’s the harshest criticism he can bring himself to voice about Donald Trump then I’m not sure he’s really put all the fascism behind him.
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That’s fair. I figured there was at least something earlier, but Ronin is definitely the first one I ever encountered in a mainstream bookstore, and even that young, it felt like a huge deal. nowadays graphic novel releases seem like DVD releases for movies - an intended, expected follow-on revenue stream - and they kinda feel built for that more than the monthly release schedule.
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