McMillan graduated from the
Tisch School of the Arts at
New York University in 1987 with a BFA in film. During her time at NYU, she studied animation under Richard Protovin and
John Canemaker, and received an award for her student film. In 1992, McMillan was offered her first professional cartooning opportunity as an editorial assistant at XS- magazine/City Link, an alt-newsweekly. By 1999, McMillan began self-syndicating her cartoons, as well as providing exclusive comic features and illustrations for hundreds of publications worldwide. Her work has appeared in many publications, including the
Los Angeles Times,
Daily Beast,
South Florida Sun-Sentinel,
Comic Relief,
Amarillo Globe-News,
Funny Times,
Yahoo.com, and the
San Francisco Bay Guardian. 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, Refuse and Resist!, the
Occupy movement throughout the country, U.S. Hands Off the Haitian People's Coalition, and the
Revolutionary Communist Youth Brigade. In 2012, McMillan won the
Robert F. Kennedy Journalism Award for Editorial Cartoonists for her work as a political cartoonist. McMillan’s daily comic strip,
Minimum Security, was syndicated online at
Universal Uclick’s gocomics.com in the early 2010s. From 2009 to 2011, McMillan also drew
Code Green, a weekly editorial cartoon that focused "exclusively on the environmental emergency." 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==