{"product_id":"push-the-wall-by-frank-miller","title":"Push the Wall by Frank Miller","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eFrank Miller is our greatest living comic book writer and artist.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFrank Miller shares his life, and through, his artistic process. Miller’s artistic influence is evident in so very much of our popular culture, perhaps most notably with Batman—every film adaptation from the past forty years has been influenced by Miller’s work with the dark knight.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eSimply, Frank Miller has transformed the way comics are told.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eHere, Frank’s mix of autobiographical lessons evokes Patti Smith’s \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eJust Kids\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e as it weaves his struggles as a seventeen-year-old kid fresh from Vermont into a seedy 1970s New York City with his eventual success on reimagining \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eDaredevil\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e and \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eWolverine\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e. From there to Miller’s rescue and revitalization of \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eBatman\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e, to his time in Hollywood, the \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eSin City\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e comics and film adaptations he would codirect, and the retelling of the Spartans’ last stand in \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003e300.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e Miller, by constantly challenging himself as an artist and writer on his terms, built an iconoclastic career.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWith over a dozen illustrations of Miller’s art, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003ePush the Wall\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e is the work of his career—it is a masterclass as it encapsulates his life in sixteen lessons for the aspiring creative reader.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Simon \u0026 Schuster","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56761866387622,"sku":"9781668065297","price":35.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/4637\/7638\/files\/818q9OdbNZL._SL1500.jpg?v=1783535188","url":"https:\/\/woollybearbooks.com\/products\/push-the-wall-by-frank-miller","provider":"Woolly Bear Books and Gifts","version":"1.0","type":"link"}