W. R. Miller
I've worked primarily in the entertainment industry as an animator, writer and storyboard artist, with two Emmy honors on The Simpsons. My articles have been published in Starlog, Comics Scene, Comics Buyer’s Guide, Animation Magazine, Animato! and the online Animation World Magazine. I have just completed the five-volume Batman: The Animated Interviews, published by BearManor Media. Works-in-progress: The Justice Dragon; The Star Wars Historical Sourcebook. Further details are presented at my webpage, https://wrmilleronline.com/about/
How to Desolate a Dragon
In its first two weeks of release, The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug became the fourth highest-grossing film of 2013, ultimately earning $958,366,855 worldwide in its theatrical venue. Do these enormous box-office revenues make the film immune from criticism? Here’s an Honest Movie Trailer: Posted online on December 16, 2014 And author John C. Wright […]
A Muppets Christmas Ding-Dong
Here’s how the Muppets sing “Carol of the Bells”: Uploaded December 10, 2009
Battle of the Supers
Superman vs. Super Saiyan Goku. Who would win? Find out with this exciting flipbook presentation: Post by FEEDBAC.
Happy Holidays from Film Roman, 1991-1994
Film Roman is the studio responsible for the production of such notable animated fare as The Simpsons (Season 4 to date), King of the Hill, The Oblongs, The Critic, Garfield and Friends, Bobby’s World, Grimmy, Mighty Max, Felix, Cro, and Tom and Jerry: The Movie. I began working there as a storyboard revisionist on Garfield […]
Never Laugh at a Live Dragon
On December 11, 2014, Stephen Colbert of Comedy Central interviewed none other than Smaug the Tremendous. This is a brilliant piece, with the fire drake showing more emotion than he ever did in The Desolation of Smaug–eye-blinking, tongue-licking, hackle-raising and the like. Considering the enormity of resources involved in bringing the dragon to Hollywood, could […]
Missed! Ha-ha!
A clip from The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies: http://youtu.be/1UeqXEKrT10 Poor Bard. He missed the one vulnerable spot in Smaug’s hide. One appetizer for the dragon, coming up.
The Making of Panel 19 — Cobblestone’s Reluctant Dragon
In June 2013 Cobblestone Media launched an effort on Indiegogo to crowd-fund its first project, The Reluctant Dragon, with hopes of a series of ebooks to promote reading. Fantasy painter Den Beauvais rendered a series of gorgeous paintings, with the expectation of doing more to complete the book once the funds were raised. This video […]
Star Wars Progress Report, 12-07-2014
Skywalker Ranch Research Library, from Pininterest. This November, I spent a week-and-a-half researching at Rancho Obi-Wan and at Skywalker Ranch’s archives, gathering rare and hard-to-find information for what I am now calling The Star Wars Historical Sourcebook, which focuses on the years 1971 to 1990. This time I catalogued variants to Star Wars novelizations, thanks […]
The Empire is Coming to Town
Happy Holidays from the Empire! Ruby Rinekso and his fellow stormtroopers from the 501st Legion promote Spike TV’s Star Wars Holiday Marathon, which aired January 3, 2014 at 2 p.m. EST. Uploaded by Ruby Rinekso on December 23, 2013. Here’s another starring Rinekso as the stormtrooper, to promote another Spike TV Star Wars marathon. Uploaded […]
