Frank Miller (comics) - Personal Life

Personal Life

Miller was born in Olney, Maryland, and raised in Montpelier, Vermont, the fifth of seven children of a nurse mother and a carpenter/electrician father. His family was Irish Catholic. Living in New York City's Hell's Kitchen influenced Miller's material in the 1980s. Miller lived in Los Angeles, California in the 1990s, which influenced Sin City. Miller moved back to Hell's Kitchen by 2001 and was creating Batman: The Dark Knight Strikes Again as the 9/11 terrorist attacks occurred about 4 miles from that neighborhood.

Miller was formerly married to colorist Lynn Varley, who colored many of his noted works (from Ronin (1984) through 300 (1998), and the backgrounds to the movie 300 (2007)). Miller and Varley divorced in 2005. He has since been romantically linked to New York-based Shakespearean scholar Kimberly Halliburton Cox, who had a cameo in The Spirit (2008).

In November 2011, Miller posted incendiary remarks pertaining to the Occupy Wall Street movement in his personal blog. Miller found the movement to be morally suspect and ignorant of Islamicism. Miller’s comments proved controversial, sparking criticism, including that from fellow comic creators such as Alan Moore.

In October 2012, Joanna Gallardo-Mills, who began working for Miller as an executive coordinator in November 2008, filed suit against Miller in Manhattan for discrimination and "mental anguish", stating that Miller's girlfriend, actress Kimberly Cox, created a hostile work environment for Gallardo-Mills in Miler and Cox's Hell's Kitchen living/work space. According to the lawsuit, Cox smeared Gallardo-Mills's work area with feces, destroyed her printer with a hammer, threw phones at her, left a used feminine hygiene pad by her desk, and made comments to her such as, "I can't understand your funky accent. Speak fuckking English". Gallardo-Mills says she was ultimately fired in July 2010 for complaining about Cox's behavior.