Push The Wall: My Life, Writing, Drawing, and the Art of Storytelling

Reviews Tom Scioli | October 29, 2026 If any artist working in comics has a story to tell, it's Frank Miller. He's had a prolific nearly 50-year career with enough artistic triumphs and public controversies that when he announced he was writing the story of his life, I sat up and took notice. Frank Miller's Push The Wall: My Life, Writing, Drawing, and the Art of Storytelling is a hybrid work. It's not broken into chapters, but into lessons numbered one through 16, meaning that despite “My Life” coming first in the title, his rubric takes center stage. It's a "master class" as the book is described on the back cover woven together with an autobiographical through line. Examining Push The Wall from the outside, it's a physically hefty tome in a dust-jacketed hardcover. The book's overall color scheme is cribbed from his signature Sin City red-white-and-black motif. The edges of the pages are rendered black, a continuation of the black/white inversion that Miller practices throughout Sin City, well-utilized in the second film's casino vignette where the decks of cards are black and the clubs and spades are white, taking something that’s traditionally depicted as one color and making ...