Stephanie McMillan (born 1965) is an American political cartoonist, editorialist, and activist from South Florida. A granddaughter of the German commercial animator Hans Fischerkoesen and the sister of Alexander Fischerkoesen, McMillan aspired to become a cartoonist from the age of ten. During her high school years, she began organizing protests against capitalism and imperialism. The Comics Journal describes McMillan's comics and cartoons as being "on the far left" of the American political spectrum, and as being focused on "anti-corporate activism."[1]
Beyond her professional cartooning, McMillan has been an organizer against capitalism and imperialism all her life. The groups she has worked with include One Struggle,[5] Refuse and Resist!, the Occupy movement throughout the country,[6] U.S. Hands Off the Haitian People's Coalition,[7] and the Revolutionary Communist Youth Brigade.[8] In 2012, McMillan won the Robert F. Kennedy Journalism Award for Editorial Cartoonists for her work as a political cartoonist.[9]
McMillan’s daily comic strip, Minimum Security, was syndicated online at Universal Uclick’s gocomics.com in the early 2010s.[10] From 2009 to 2011, McMillan also drew Code Green, a weekly editorial cartoon that focused "exclusively on the environmental emergency."[11][3] McMillan has been an editor and designer for The Notebook (Association of American Editorial Cartoonists), and does freelance illustration and writing. Her own books include Capitalism Must Die! A Basic Introduction: What capitalism is, why it sucks, and how to crush it (INIP—Idées Nouvelles Idées Prolétariennes, 2014), The Beginning of the American Fall (Seven Stories Press, 2012), and As The World Burns: 50 Simple Things You Can Do to Stay in Denial with Derrick Jensen (Seven Stories Press, 2007).
Books
2012 — Capitalism Must Die! A Basic Introduction: What capitalism is, why it sucks, and how to crush it (text with comics), INIP (Idées Nouvelles Idées Prolétariennes)
2013 — The Minimum Security Chronicles: Resistance to Ecocide (graphic novel), Seven Stories Press
2012 — The Beginning of the American Fall (comics journalism about the Occupy protests), Seven Stories Press
2012 — The Knitting Circle Rapist Annihilation Squad (novel with Derrick Jensen), PM Press/Flashpoint
2010 — Mischief in the Forest: A Yarn Yarn (children’s book with Derrick Jensen), PM Press/Flashpoint
2010 — Pendant Que la Planète Flambe (French edition of As the World Burns), La Boîte à Bulles
2009 — Excessive Force (anthology), Last Hours, UK
2007 — As the World Burns: 50 Simple Things You Can Do to Stay in Denial (graphic novel with Derrick Jensen), Seven Stories Press (Nominated by National Library Association as a Great Graphic Novel for Teens, 2008)
^McMillan, Stephanie (2012). The Beginning of the American Fall: A Comics Journalist Inside the Occupy Wall Street Movement. Seven Stories Press. ISBN9781609804534.
