The Hard Goodbye: When the Artists We Admire Disappoint Us.

  Today I'm sad. I'm sad because I read this: Frank Miller's invective-filled hate piece about the Occupy Wall Street movement. It's a pretty shocking piece of badly reasoned, idiosyncratic garbage. Not because he disagrees with the OWS folks, but because he unloaded a shitload of baseless hyperbole on a movement he clearly doesn't even understand. It should come as no surprise that Frank Miller's politics are right of center. That should have been abundantly clear to anyone who has done even a superficial survey of his work. His graphic novels Ronin, Daredevil: Born Again, Batman: The Dark Knight Returns, and Sin City all revolve around the theme of man vs his society. They all glorify the sovereignty of the individual and the lone man's fight against a corrupt and apathetic system. Needless to say, he has never been a great admirer of or believer in the power of the collective to effect change for the better. So, I'm not surprised he doesn't support the Occupy Wall Street movement. But I did not actually expect him to be so ideologically invested in his fictional work as to be unable to recognize that a) he is currently living in a society [...]