It is more raw and unfettered and I'm more likely going into something you could call extreme cartooning. There's a lot of that in the course of 'Holy Terror.' There are interludes where there are pictures - cartoon pictures - of modern figures and they are all wordless. It's up to readers to put the words in.

Frank Miller

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The noir hero is a knight in blood caked armor. He's dirty and he does his best to deny the fact that he's a hero the whole time.

Frank Miller

artist hero dirty

News objectivity is a twentieth-century myth. We only complain about propaganda when we don't agree with it.

Frank Miller

news objectivity complaining

It's not movies and it's not "fine art." The beauty of a comic is that it's clear, direct communication. My work is getting simpler and more cartoony because I'm much more interested in communication now than in any illustrative value.

Frank Miller

comic communication art

Sometimes the solitary voice can be the best one.

Frank Miller

voice artist sometimes

You can't have virtue without sin. What I'm after is having my characters' virtues defined by how they operate in a very sinful environment. That's how you test people.

Frank Miller

artist character people

A man without hope is a man without fear.

Frank Miller

without-hope hope men

People are attempting to bring a superficial reality to superheroes which is rather stupid. They work best as the flamboyant fantasies they are. I mean, these are characters that are broad and big. I don't need to see sweat patches under Superman's arms. I want to see him fly.

Frank Miller

stupid character mean

In the world of comic books, "troublemaker" means someone who has some sense of dignity.

Frank Miller

mean book world

Superman punched out Hitler. So did Captain America. That's one of the things they're there for.

Frank Miller

captains america

The day you write to please everyone you no longer are in journalism. You are in show business.

Frank Miller

journalism shows writing

'Cartoonists' dirty secret is that we tend to come up with stories that involve things that are really fun to draw.

Frank Miller

naughty fun dirty

The fundament of a superhero is the guy in tights saving innocent people from bad things. It's amazing how infrequently that seems to happen in superhero comics these days.

Frank Miller

superhero guy people

3,000 of my neighbors were murdered. My country was, utterly unprovoked, savagely attacked. I wish all those responsible for the atrocity of 9/11 to burn in Hell.

Frank Miller

atrocities wish country

Gotham City. Clean shafts of concrete and snowy rooftops. The work of men who died generations ago. From here, it looks like an achievement. From here, you can't see the enemy.

Frank Miller

cities men enemy

When you got a condition, it's bad to forget your medicine.

Frank Miller

sin-city medicine forget

I'm a comic book artist. So I think to myself, what do I like to draw? I like to draw hot chicks, fast cars and cool guys in trench coat. So that's what I write about.

Frank Miller

artist writing book

When you think of what Americans accomplished, building these amazing cities and all the good it's done in the world, it's kind of disheartening to hear so much hatred of America, not just from abroad, but internally.

Frank Miller

cities america thinking

A gun is a liar's weapon

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weapons gun liars

What I want to bring back to superheroes with this project is a sense of play. Things have gotten so dreary. The heroes have gotten so ugly that even their muscles have muscles.

Frank Miller

firefighter hero play

I find that if somebody is writing and drawing a comic book, planning it to be a movie and a game at the same time tends to lead to a pretty lame job.

Frank Miller

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