Frank Miller – Comics Retailer #64 “Sin City” Cover Original Art
Year: 1997
Publisher: Krause Publications
Published: Comics Retailer #64, 1997
Medium: Ink on paper
Size: Approx. 12 × 19 inches (31 × 49 cm)
Signed: “FM” lower right
Original published Sin City cover artwork by Frank Miller, created for Comics Retailer #64, published by Krause Publications in 1997. The composition features two of Miller’s most recognisable Sin City characters, Marv and Nancy Callahan, rendered in his distinctive high-contrast black-and-white style.
The cover carries the theme “San Diego or Bust”, a direct reference to the annual San Diego Comic-Con, with Miller placing Marv and Nancy in a playful convention-bound composition. The artwork combines large areas of solid black, energetic brushwork and sharply defined negative space, all hallmarks of Miller’s mature Sin City visual language.
The image was also published in The Comics Journal Library: Frank Miller on page 101.
Artist: Frank Miller
Frank Miller is one of the most influential American comic creators of the modern era. His major works include Daredevil, Elektra, Ronin, Batman: The Dark Knight Returns, Batman: Year One, Sin City and 300.
Sin City, first published by Dark Horse in 1991, became one of Miller’s signature creations and includes major stories such as The Hard Goodbye, A Dame to Kill For, The Big Fat Kill, That Yellow Bastard, Family Values and Hell and Back.