Frank Miller’s Ronin Poster FRAMED Ronin #1 Cover (1983) by Frank Miller

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You are purchasing the item pictured, framed. Priority mail, tracking and $50 insurance is included with purchase. Item will be bagged to protect from dust, packed in packing peanuts and boxed. Just open box and hang it on the wall…makes a perfect gift!

In the early 1980s the comics industry was changing rapidly. Improved methods for printing, binding and distributing comics were coming into vogue, empowering a generation of young auteurs like Frank Miller to create new and challenging works that redefined the possibilities of mainstream comics. Mike W. Barr and Brian Bolland’s Camelot 3000 was one of the first of the prestige limited series, printed on higher-quality paper and sold directly to customers through comics shops. Miller’s manga-inflected ROnin, released in the summer of 1983, upped the ante even further. With no ads, square binding, and an enhanced color palette, the six-issue series – chronicling the exploits of a reincarnated samurai on the streets of a dystopic near-future New York City – paved the way for Watchmen, Batman: The Dark Knight and other “event comics” to come. “Almost everything about the Ronin will be different from my previous work. I’m exploring brand new ground…Because of the way it’s being printed and the way it’s being colored, I’ve developed a different way to render it, a different way to approach it. This is getting the finest production that you can get. Consequently, everything from the writing to the coloring to the art has to be changed radically to accommodate it. It’s as if I’ve been doing black-and-white TV movies and all of a sudden I’m doing full-color films. It’s that radical a difference, and for that reason it’s a difference in style for me.” – Frank Miller. Ronin is a comic book limited series published between 1983 and 1984, by DC Comics. The series was written and drawn by Frank Miller with artwork painted by Lynn Varley. It takes place in a dystopic near-future New York in which a ronin is reincarnated. The six-issue work shows some of the strongest influences of manga and bande dessinée on Miller’s style, both in the artwork and narrative style. The ideas for Ronin came together while Miller was doing extensive research into Kung Fu movies, martial arts, samurai comic books, and samurai ethics for his work on Daredevil. He remarked that “The aspect of the samurai that intrigues me most is the ronin, the masterless samurai, the fallen warrior. … This entire project comes from my feelings that we, modern men, are ronin. We’re kind of cut loose. I don’t get the feeling from the people I know, the people I see on the street, that they have something greater than themselves to believe in. Patriotism, religion, whatever – they’ve all lost their meaning for us.” Ronin was in part inspired by Kazuo Koike and Goseki Kojima’s manga series Kozure Okami. (Though Kozure Okami would receive an English localization several years later as Lone Wolf and Cub, at the time Miller could not read the text and had to rely on the artwork for his understanding of the story. Frank Miller (born January 27, 1957) is an American writer, artist, and film director best known for his dark comic book stories and graphic novels such as Ronin, Daredevil: Born Again, The Dark Knight Returns, Sin City, and 300. He also directed the film version of The Spirit, shared directing duties with Robert Rodriguez on Sin City and produced the film 300. His first creator-owned title was DC Comics’ six-issue miniseries Ronin (1983–1984). This series shows some of the strongest influences of manga and bande dessinée on Miller’s style, both in the artwork and narrative style. In 1985, DC Comics named Miller as one of the honorees in the company’s 50th-anniversary publication Fifty Who Made DC Great. In Sin City (2005), he plays the priest killed by Marv in the confessional. In 1998 Darren Aronofsky inked a deal with New Line Cinema for a film adaptation of the graphic novel. In 2007 Gianni Nunnari, producer of 300, announced he would be producing and Sylvain White, director of Stomp The Yard, directing the Ronin film adaptation. Animation director Genndy Tartakovsky has noted that Ronin was one of the major influences on his animated TV series Samurai Jack, whose plot overview is similar.