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Saturday Trending Topics: Frank Miller Comments On The Occupy Movement

Published Sun, 13 Nov 2011 00:01:53 -0600

Last updated Sun, 13 Nov 2011 00:14:09 -0600

There was one thing on the comics internet's mind today, and that's Frank Miller's blog post about the Occupy Movement. We've noted here recently that the decades-long ebb and flow of mainstream comics' engagement with social and political concerns of the times seems to be leveling up again, so it comes as no surprise that creators are increasingly engaging issues directly as well as through the pages of their comics.

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Occupy Frank Miller

Frank Miller writes on his blog;

Everybody's been too damn polite about this nonsense:

Comics Industry Issues Retort To Frank Miller. Including Batman.

A few of his fellow comic book professionals had something to say on Twitter as well. Here's a selection. They are rather less mixed.

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