Biografia

Is best known for his grim film-noirish comic book stories using characters like Batman and Daredevil as well as original works like Sin City.

Often features characters with a physical or mental affliction. Both Miho and Kevin from Sin City are mute, whilst Marv's mother, Matt Murdock/Daredevil, Stick and Manute are all blind. Both Sin City's Hartigan and Batman in Dark Knight Returns suffer heart problems.

Often features characters who are 'killed', disfigured or mortally wounded, only to be surgically rebuilt stronger and deadlier than before, eg. Robocop, Dwight, Batman.

Fedora hat.

His heroes are often extremely moral individuals surviving in a cruel environment.

Has worked for both Marvel Comics and DC Comics.

He claimed in the introduction to "The Dark Knight Returns" that he got the idea of writing of a Batman in his mid 60s from a age crisis he had. He "could stand that his little brother was older than Spider-Man, but that he himself getting older than Batman, was something that had to be stopped." He was 29 years old, closing up on 30, writing "The Dark Knight Returns."

He is a very big fan of Wonder Woman (2017) which he called the ''crown jewel of Superhero films".

Moved to New York in 1976, when he was 19. Within a week of his arrival he had found work as a comic book artist.

He praised Ben Affleck's portrayal of Batman in Batman v Superman: Dawn Of Justice (2016).

I figured Daredevil must be Catholic because only a Catholic could be both an attorney and a vigilante.

You can't have virtue without sin. What I'm after is having my characters' virtues defined by how they operate in a very sinful environment. That's how you test people.

I was always into noir. When I lived in Vermont I was drawing stuff that looked like an amateur doing 'Sin City'. When I first got to New York I was swiftly informed that they only did guys in tights.

I realized that I was about to turn 30, and Batman was permanently 29. And I was going to be damned if I was older than Batman.

[about his inspirations] I'm a comic book artist. So I think to myself, what do I like to draw? I like to draw hot chicks, fast cars and cool guys in trench coat. So that's what I write about.