GQ seems to be maintaining the links with the late 1980s when
comics
were cool. Frank Miller is a British comic writer. He made
Batman the
Dark Knight. He also wrote in the early-late 1980s a lovely
hard-boiled
murder/mystery called 'V for Vendetta', set in a
fascist-styled Britain.
(This comic was started in 'Eagle' magazine in the UK and
finished by DC
comics in the States. The characterisation is very good, and
has tones
of sentimentalisty that is being disussed at the moment.)
Miller
certainly could be seen as a hard-boiled writer, but is more
of a
gothic-styled writer, I feel.
Don't be put off by the medium, he is a very good writer. I
loved comics
in my adolescence, but, like films made from books, I began
to want a
depth of characterisation that comics couldn't give.
Stuart Timothy Mayne
Editor
Melbourne, Australia
smayne@vecci.org.au
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