Julian Darius, “Thoughts on Frank Miller’s Creative Evolution”: Beginning
Julian Darius, “Thoughts on Frank Miller’s Creative Evolution”: Beginning with Sin City, Miller’s art began to look like [Alex] Toth [minimalism] on steroids, and I don’t think it’s too much to say that the effect revolutionized comics art. Simplicity is often more effective than needless complexity. But simplify the characters in this way, and you get a hero and a villain who fight with exaggerated brutality, and the villain’s very very evil and insane, and the hero’s very very good because he’s the only line of defense against this very very evil monstrosity. Everything’s reduced to its essential elements. Including people… Take this too far, and minimalism can give way to a lack a subtlety, then to an apparent hostility towards subtlety, a deliberate closing-off of interpretive possibilities that once helped counterbalance the violent, uncompromising hero. -- source link
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