Will this cover rehabilitate Frank Miller's rep?

Ma, look at what Hollywood did to my boy!

I’ve thought that there must be some sort of (really slowly) degenerative condition going on behind his appearance and feebleness. It doesn’t seem like just substance abuse. We were both at the same party 12 years ago and even then I was like holy shit he is about to die. He got out of a car with help and then had trouble stepping up onto the curb. Idk how you plant yourself at the verge of death for decades like that, Burroughs is the only other example I can think of.

mark e. smith

Most surprising thing about that interview is really Neal Adam's comments,

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Burroughs was *always* stooped and kind of hobbling about. Even as a young man - well into his habits - Burroughs appeared 20 years older. And he lived to a grand old age! Miller otoh just looks like death warmed over.

That wasn't a complete final thought: He looks like death warmed over but he didn't look anything like that as a younger man.

Miller's face in that photo is performing some kind of weird perspective illusion where he appears to be looking in two directions at once. Human cubism.

To be honest he looks way better than he did four/five years ago, his declining health was pretty evident back then.

http://www4.pictures.zimbio.com/gi/Frank+Miller+Frank+Miller+Sin+City+Dame+Kill+XLn4OBnvUUAl.jpg

goddamn who knew That Yellow Bastard as a self portrait

Ma, look at what Hollywood did to my boy!

I didn’t read it that way... he seemed to be putting the blame squarely on Miller; and partly on himself, for not “teaching” Miller better (as if it were his responsibility somehow, as a “father figure”).

Xpost jesus I’d forgotten how bad that photo was. He does look better now!

I didn’t read it that way... he seemed to be putting the blame squarely on Miller; and partly on himself, for not “teaching” Miller better (as if it were his responsibility somehow, as a “father figure”).

yeah I read it more as "know the difference between yourself, a person like any other person, and your work, which may well be powerful & have a profound effective on people" - Adams would know, he's a guy whose work had people deifying him early on, but in all fields there's people who really soak that up and get very lost in their own heads as a result.

Adams would know

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