Subject: please advise: Frank Miller cursing OWS
From: "j.r. kerr" <jrkerrdog@hotmail.com>
Date: 11/14/11, 11:17
To: <barriticus@gmail.com>, <transistor@hushmail.com>, "j.r. kerr" <jrkerrdog@hotmail.com>

This came to my attention and I responded by echoing thus:

Frank Miller, author of Batman Dark Knight & 300, thinks that #OWS

are "nothing but a pack of louts, thieves, and rapists, an unruly mob,
fed by Woodstock-era nostalgia and putrid false righteousness."
http://bit.ly/vraTJk (article at the atlantic)
He also invites our feedback at his webpage http://frankmillerink.com/
and twitter feed @FrankMillerInk so take a second to let him know how you feel.
 
OccupyMarines take special note: he thinks protesters should pre-qualify with military service.
 
------- then I added this to where my connections in comic book industry could see it

Worse. Frank Miller has a sunken chest and couldn't do one pushup.

He wears a raincoat and converse chuck taylor all stars.
If I tried to look like columbine "trenchcoat" mafia I couldn't do a worse job.
 
I was there in 1985 or so (@ 1:30 ...http://youtu.be/9_G7l8Za_Fo )
when Frank Miller created his poseur curmudgeon persona by deciding
 to parrot Burne Hogarth (he talked like http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QMBZDwf9dok
and looked like http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Burne_Hogarth.jpg ) in all things.
It was all related to a "what about jack?" campaign that would give
Jack Kirby something for the sale of his original artwork.
Conversely Jack Kirby http://youtu.be/v-BTa_lQ6uQ , Will Eisner,
Stan Lee http://youtu.be/GCUbdN1toJ8 , etc at conventions are the warmest
 and most genuine people I ever met. They honestly had gratitude,
and a smile for every single one of their autograph hounds.
Frank Miller is a scowling dick like Daniel Clowes: they both
need to stay home and quit coming to conventions at all.
 
So... I have no idea where Miller gets off trying to STILL use
Burne Hogarth swagger 25 years later and tell protesters to
serve first (when he didn't) despite all of the available social media
news that could've informed him that veterans are marching for OWS
 and 15.0 http://youtu.be/7L0BzKMmmoI
I will also add that I learned Japanese and German because of
Chris Claremont's Wolverine and Nightcrawler.
Not Frank's Wolverine limited series, and not Frank's covers for
Lone Wolf & Cub.

Therefore it doesn't pain me at all to say that Frank can wear a JAFO hat now. Fuck him!

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I've been mentally gnawing on this like a dog with a bone...
and I think I need help proposing to anonymous operations that
they orchestrate letters to Time Warner shareholders
(own Batman and DC) to slap Frank Miller's wrist. There have been
 30,000,000 guy fawkes masks sold since the start of OWS* and
TW stock shot to $70 a share. Miller is speaking against their interests
 in this regard and they should marginalize their relationship
 with him much farther than they already have.

Otherwise... Frank can just feel like "hey no such thing as bad press,"
because it will just be lots of traffic to his site.
The admonishment needs to come down on him from above.

I echoed the above into a connection list with a lot of comic industry pals, but it
will likely only earn him some quiet disregard at conventions.

Seriously... did we ever see Batman punch a cop before Frank Miller wrote him doing it?
How on earth can he oppose civil disobedience now?

*yes I know making a paper mask is the cooler thing to do.