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Bill Collins
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Doesn`t look anything like Frank`s work,i have a couple
of genuine prints,they`re signed in pencil in his
stylised `FM` signature.On his comics work he usually
signs in a simple capital `FM`
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Eric Sofer
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I guess I'll chime in that, while I don't know whose artwork it is, it does not look very much like Frank Miller at all. I think the face disqualifies it from being an FM piece... my own impression, of course.
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Eric Ladd
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Here is a signature from the cartoonist in Des Moines:
Here is a signature from the comic artist from 1982:
What does the signature from the print look like? |
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Andy Mokler
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Not sure this helps, but it looks like Lee Marvin in the Killers might have been the reference used:
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Richard Stevens
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You could take a more head-on photo of the print and upload it to google image search. It might give you some suggestions.
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Bob Harvey
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This is the only photo I have. I didn't take it. I could maybe request another but am not sure I want to express any more interest. In retrospect, they might have been hoping I would buy this, as opposed to seeking my expert opinion. :)
Judging from the photo, it does look more like the other Frank Miller's signature, though it doesn't look like his art either. Not that it's an especially involved signature; anyone printing "Miller" might get a fairly similar result. (I'm from Des Moines originally; I wonder if that's why the signature looked legit to me.)
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Matt Hawes
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Yesterday, I took Bob's photo and put it in Photoshop, cropped and distorted the image so that it looked to be the right perspective (more head-on, as Richard suggested), and it came up with nothing in the Google image results.
Also, about the signature, the other Frank Miller's signature always seems to have that added squiggle at the very end, at the bottom of the "r" in his work, The picture Bob posted does not look to have that detail.
Andy, nice find on the Lee Marvin pic! That looks to be a definite match as far as the inspiration/reference for the drawing in question.
Edited by Matt Hawes on 19 January 2017 at 12:58pm
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Matt Hawes
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I have tried looking up "Lee Marvin The Killers" with "art," "drawing," and "Miller" in Google image search and still reached a dead end.
I still say, it's not likely it is Frank Miller of "The Dark Knight Returns" fame, nor the other cartoonist, Frank Miller, but yet another artist with that last name. I did search "Mike Miller art," another comics artist with the same last name, and that also yielded no clues.
The mystery continues.
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Andrew W. Farago
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Pop it out of the frame. The mat might be obscuring some copyright info, which would clear this up in two seconds, or there may be some kind of notation on the back. "Miller" is a common enough name that it's not going to get you very far on its own. Might be a professional artist, might not.
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Ted Pugliese
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Wssn't there a Mike S. Miller who signed his last name
like that?
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Shane Matlock
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Doesn't really look like Mike S. Miller's work either.
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Bill Collins
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Maybe it`s by an art student or other amateur who just
happens to be called Frank Miller?
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