The author was set to deliver a lecture at the Chautauqua Institution when an assailant rushed at him. Witnesses said the attacker furiously stabbed the writer repeatedly before the police and audience members restrained him.
Two of Miller’s original drawings that were used in 1980s issues of David Anthony Kraft’s magazine Comics Interview were gifts, Kraft’s wife says. Miller says they were not.
After losing control of his intellectual property — including the book, a classic and a strong seller for decades — he has regained the rights, and is publishing again.
“My late mother refused to even buy my books because why buy them when you can get them free at the library?” says the journalist and author, whose latest book is “Raising Lazarus.” “I gave her copies, of course.”