

In photos, Miller scowls heavily into the camera, the very image of the kind of grizzled tough he might have drawn in Sin City. “I declared to my parents that I was going to do that for the rest of my life.” He’s wearing a black T-shirt with a drawing of Benedict Cumberbatch as Sherlock Holmes and the words “high-functioning sociopath”, a white beard that makes him look older than his 61 years, and a near-constant smile.

“I decided that I wanted to make comic books when I was five years old,” the cartoonist says. A s far back as he can remember, Frank Miller always wanted to draw a gangster.
