Around the same time he also began a brief stint in Hollywood as a screenwriter. After all that failed, Miller began working on his famous crime noir series "Sin City" in 1993 (Lambiek par 6). Now working under his own comics label, Legend, Miller had a newfound level of freedom that gave him the opportunity to finally do what he loved. Sin City, produced in black and white, featured extremely high contrasts and stark backgrounds to tell its story. Influenced by expressionist cinema and other artists such as Will Eisner, who brought expressionism to comics, Miller sought to create a more psychological presence in this and other works (George 23). Feeling that one of his prison scenes looked too much like a school, he threw out the entire file and changed everything. “The floors were bars, the walls were bars, and the ceilings – everything – to reinforce the feeling of being trapped” (George 23). Figure 2, a Sin City prison scene, shows exactly how Miller created an abstract cell that is much more meaningful than a realistic one