The collection is arranged into two series: Series I: Original Art, 2006; 2010-2012 Series II: Drafts, Tearsheets, Clippings, and Ephemera, 2005-2015
[identification of item], [Box Number/ Folder Number] Stephanie McMillan Papers and Collection of Original Art, SPEC.CGA.SMM, Billy Ireland Cartoon Library & Museum, Ohio State University
CGA.SMM.2017: Stephanie McMillan, 2017
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Joshua Fischer, March 2017
Stephanie McMillan decided at age ten that she would become a cartoonist, and spent much of grade school reading Peanuts and copying the characters. She created a short animated film during the summer after high school at the film studio near Bonn, Germany that had been founded by her grandfather, animator Hans Fischerkoesen (Das Loch im Westen and Die Vervitterte Melodie). Awakening in high school to the dangers of nuclear war, she went on to work for many years as an activist against imperialism and for social justice issues.
Stephanie graduated from Tisch School of the Arts at New York University in 1987 with a BFA in film, studying animation under Richard Protovin and John Canemaker. She received an award for her student film.
In 1992 she was hired by the alt-newsweekly XS magazine/City Link as an editorial assistant and offered her first professional cartooning opportunity. In 1999 she began self-syndicating her cartoons, plus providing exclusive comic features and illustrations. Her work has appeared in hundreds of publications worldwide, from Iceland to Bangladesh to Canada to Saudi Arabia, including in the U.S. the Los Angeles Times, Daily Beast, South Florida Sun-Sentinel, Yes! Magazine, Comic Relief, Amarillo Globe-News, Funny Times, yahoo.com and the San Francisco Bay Guardian.
Currently her daily comic strip Minimum Security is syndicated online at Universal Uclick’s gocomics.com. She also draws and self-syndicates a weekly editorial cartoon, Code Green.
To find out more about the collection cartoonist, find out more at her website and bio here: http://stephaniemcmillan.org/sample-page/
Original Art has been separated is fully cataloged in the Billy Ireland Cartoon Library & Museum
The Original Art Series contains original art, text, roughs, storyboard, and scripts for the graphic novels, Mischiefl In The Forest: A Yarn Yarn, The Minimum Security Chronicles: Resistance to Ecocide, and As The World Burns: 50 Simple Things You Can Do To Stay In Denial by Stephanie McMillan. The original artwork is fully cataloged in the Billy Ireland Cartoon Library & Museum
The Drafts, Tearsheets, Clippings, and Ephemera Series contains assorted material related to the graphic novel, her illustration career, and comic strips.
Original art for the graphic novel "As The World Burns: 50 Simple Things You Can Do To Stay In Denial." Some original pages not included. 003bg-033ck are roughs and script pages. Contains CGA. SMM.1.001a-cc. CGA. SMM.1.002a-ch. CGA. SMM.1.003a-003ck
All art was used in the graphic novel "The Minimum Security Chronicles: Resistance To Ecocide." Published in 2013 by Seven Stories Press. Some original pages not included. 004a-004e are roughs. Contains CGA.SMM.1.004a-ae. CGA.SMM.1.005-ac. CGA.SMM.1.006a-z. CGA.SMM.1.007a-q. CGA.SMM.1.008a-u. CGA.SMM.1.009a-bc. CGA.SMM.1.010a-av.
Materials used for Mischief In The Forest: A Yarn Yarn. Children’s picture book. Includes original art, original text, roughs, color computer printouts, storyboard, and script. Published in 2010 by PM Press.Contains CGA.SMM.1.011a-cv. CGA.SMM.1.012a-bf.
Materials not part of original collection. Color printouts printed by the Billy Ireland Cartoon Library & Museum for reference. Contains CGA.SMM.1.013.001ac-.066
Contains 104 pieces from Part 2 of Beggining of the American Fall. Contains CGA.SMM.1.014a-cz.
Collection from sketchbooks depciting Code Green. Contains CGA.SMM.1.015.001-.067
Contains sketches and printouts from Code Gree. Contains CGA. SMM.1.016.001.036
Color computer printouts and roughs from Social Media Toons. Contains CGA.SMM.1. 017.001.030
Art and Text, appears in Graphic Canon #3. Art by Stephanie McMillan, author Maxim Gorky. Contains CGA.SMM.1.018a-k
Sketches from Colo-Plants. Contains CGA.SMM.1.019a-t
Sketches from Left Coast & Harrisburg. Also includes comics for California. Contains CGA.SMM.1 .020.001a-d.036a-b
Folder 1 of 3 for "365..." sketches containing 94 items. Contains CGA.SMM.1.021.001-.094
Folder 2 of 3 for "365.." sketches containing 135 items. Contains CGA.SMM.1.022.001.135
Folder 3 of 3 for "365.." sketches containing 123 items. Contains CGA.SMM.1.023.001.123
Contains 45 miscellanous drawings including clients and toons. Contains CGA.SMM.1.024.001.045
Contains 64 miscellaneous drawings. Contains CGA.SMM.1.025.001.061a-d
Sketchbook 1 of 6 with 32 leaves. Contains CGA.SMM.1.026-.011
Sketchbook 2 of 6 containing 28 leaves. Contains CGA.SMM.1.027.001
Sketchbook 3 of 6 containing 30 leaves. Contains CGA.SMM.1.028.001
Sketchbook 4 of 6 containing 36 items. Contains CGA.SMM.1.029.001
Sketchbook 5 of 6 containing 28 items. Contains CGA.SMM.1.030.001
Sketchbook 6 of 6 containing 34 leaves. Contains CGA.SMM.1.031.001
This project was aborted because the rights could not be obtained from Sartre's heirs.