Frank Miller – 1994 Sin City: The Big Fat Kill #2, Page 7 & The Big Fat Kill, Collected Edition, Back Cover Original Art 2005

Year: 1994

Publisher: Dark Horse Comics

Published: Sin City: The Big Fat Kill #2, 1994; subsequently published as the back cover of The Big Fat Kill collected edition

Medium: Ink on paper

Size: 11.4 × 16.9 inches (29 × 43 cm)

Original published Sin City artwork by Frank Miller, created for page 7 of Sin City: The Big Fat Kill #2, published by Dark Horse Comics in 1994. Written and illustrated by Miller, The Big Fat Kill was originally serialised as a five-issue series and became the third major collected volume of his landmark Sin City saga.

Significantly, the artwork has a second major published use as the back cover of Sin City: The Big Fat Kill in the coordinated collected editions. These editions were designed so that the artwork across the seven Sin City volumes forms a larger interconnected image when the books are displayed together. This gives the original particular significance: it is simultaneously an original sequential story page and original published back-cover artwork from one of Miller's defining works.

The page itself is a striking example of Miller's mature Sin City technique and an especially memorable part of the movie when Jack Rafferty/Iron Jack goes one step too far and deadly little Miho takes over.

Artist: Frank Miller

Frank Miller is one of the most influential American comic-book creators of the modern era. His landmark works include Daredevil, Elektra, Ronin, Batman: The Dark Knight Returns, Batman: Year One, Sin City and 300.

Miller created Sin City in 1991, initially introducing Basin City through Dark Horse Presents. The project allowed him complete control as writer and artist and resulted in an increasingly radical graphic style built around extreme contrasts of black and white, silhouettes, negative space and cinematic composition. The series developed into seven principal volumes: The Hard Goodbye, A Dame to Kill For, The Big Fat Kill, That Yellow Bastard, Family Values, Booze, Broads & Bullets and Hell and Back.