appeared Frank Miller and you have to rub your eyes ago: seems an arch comic after being thoroughly beaten by a superhero . It is known that Miller, live in the world of cartoons legend, the man who returned all his dignity and his dark Batman, has been faced with a serious illness -of which did not speak, but nothing prepares you to be spotted face to face.
He walks with difficulty, with twisted body and every figure and his face show a devastation that seems incompatible with his age (born in 1957 in Olney, Maryland, USA, he met in January 59 years ). It looks remarkably like Freddy Krueger , which contributes resemblance to the wide-brimmed hat with which it is played and also gives an air of old alienated prophet. Lanky wears a beard like a goat, and American worn over a shirt with a drawing of Batman his pretty grotesque. Looks with inquisitive eyes as his gaze alights on you is hard to hold back a shiver. Frank Miller, the creator of “Sin City,” “300″ of “Ronin” of “Elektra” , is the star of 3 4th Barcelona International Comics Convention , which has opened its doors this afternoon and which will sign copies of their albums (in the booth ECC editions, published in Spain their new adventures of “ Batman: Dark Knight III: the superior race “).
Sorprendentemente, although that aspect that draws back and his reputation for controversial and visceral man-not to mention their Comics-, Miller is very friendly. It will be an Ecce homo fact, but boasts a brilliant intelligence and answers with humor and irony. One of the most surprising things is not considered at all a tormented person.
When I say we’re the same year I look further twisting gesture but outlines a smile. Both, I point out, we met young to old Batman a fondón type, low gloss, wearing a lilac tights that were fatal, a loser and a hero of segundones and failed. How this guy has become the Dark Knight, an icon of modernity tormented? “He was a hero of folklore, and those heroes, each generation has, age badly. When I met him was as you say old and fat, and he was tired, his television show was very stupid. His comics did not sell well. Who then wanted to Batman? Batman had to change. they asked me if DC Comics Batman could save. And I said yes “. Well, the man who saved Batman, behold a title. And what was the recipe? “I got older and more angry.” Miller contemplated the hands of the new Batman Dark Knight become irate born. “ I lived in New York then. I just had to look around and there were all reasons for Batman is back as well. It was 1985. There were criminals everywhere. And in 1986 ended the return of the Dark Knight. Batman came retirement and he began to do what he does best: beatings to bad “.
Now Frank Miller grins and even laughs. Laughter seems to get you out of the mouth of a sandwich, like in the cartoons. A dry laugh. Is Frank Miller Batman as was Flaubert Madame Bovary? The artist loves the comparison. “Batman c” est moi? Batman is my dream, my stories are my dreams. I think each character or drawing is part of me . But I do not even have a car, I can not jump across rooftops and you could beat me up. “He says with a smile that makes me think that the Joker also seemed a bogey and never would want to be spotted in a dark alley. Anyway, Frank Milller is currently away from the bodybuilding Batman but is not there an existential identification? “Well, I’m angry. And Batman is always bad milk “.
What is a hero? If there is someone who knows that to be Miller.” A hero is a man or a woman who does the right thing. If there are heroes it is because the world needs. The world is not right, and the need . We need someone superior, more courageous, to help us. No need to fly. “But his heroes, and in general most since man is man, from Oedipus Captain America and Wolverine are tormented people, right?” The motivation of Batman comes from their pain . Finds solace and even a kind of happiness to give meaning to an insane world, crazed . “
” Elektra “, the Spartans of” 300 “… It would seem that Greek will you.” I very interested in Greek culture. And I obsess myths and heroes from a young age. The Greeks understood very well the idea of hero, imagined as children of God and human, and we owe them a lot. Superheroes are American mythology. Just take a classic hero and wear a tight suit and give powers. “You could say a lot about the hubris of superheroes. The eyes of Frank Miller shine with a flash of complicity.” Yes, the hubris, the fatal flaw, crack, the desire to transgress the limits, the pride is punished, it exists in superheroes, and in normal people. In any character, hero or villain, there’s that fails . If Superman were a weaker man would be a dictator. And if Batman was not at heart a kind man would be a criminal. “I do not know why I feel that you’ve read Joseph Campbell. Please smile.” Aha, The Hero with a Thousand Faces “.
Let’s talk about “ Daredevil ” to which youth knew here as Dan Defensor, more unusual hero, a disabled person, a blind man. “Ah, Daredevil is a wonderful character. I was very lucky because neither sold nor anyone like me who also commissioned redeem . I drew it because no one wanted to. And that’s why they let me make what I wanted. I was very fortunate because he liked it. “All his characters seem to move in a spectrum of moral relativity.” I do not think. I think my work is actually very moral. Good versus evil, that is the base. But it is not easy. If it were my job would be easier. “
It has been criticized deploy much violence and squalor in their stories and drawings, Frank Miller Tarantino’s comic? ” work together in “Sin City” and the two we pretty scary, “says the artist There are other similarities, he adds.” we have both an odd sense of humor and we both Japanese women like scary. We both like to scare people but always with that sense of weird humor. “
How creator of” Elektra, “do you think of superheroes, which the hall is holding an exhibition, and women in comics in general? “ Well,” Elektra “is not a superhero, is a very attractive villain . Women have made and are making a great contribution to the comic. But it takes many more: superheroes, cartoonists, writers and readers “
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