Frank Miller is an American writer and artist whose work profoundly reshaped the American comic of the late twentieth century. His 1980s runs on Daredevil introduced a hard-boiled, noir-inflected approach to the superhero; The Dark Knight Returns (1986) and Batman: Year One redefined the Batman mythology for a generation. His creator-owned Sin City and the historical epic 300 moved further toward graphic abstraction, influencing comics, cinema and design at large.