Attitude Featuring Stephanie McMillan: Minimum Security [Paperback]

Stephanie McMillan (Author), Ted Rall (Editor)

Book Description

Publication Date: November 1, 2005

A furious escaped lab bunny vandalizes symbols of corporate greed while arguing political theory with a pigtailed eco-warrior, as Zen Pug observes it all in blissful detachment. They drag her pop culture-bedazzled brother, his anarchist boyfriend and other characters - kicking and screaming - into the struggle against the rapacious thugs and theocratic wingnuts ruling imperial America. Stephanie McMillan's comics, deploying an engaging visual style that draws in everything from folk art to anime, confront the insanity and heartlessness of global capitalism and war.

Editorial Reviews

Review

"... combines the politcal satire of 'This Modern World' and the absurdist wit of 'Tom, The Dancing Bug.' " -- Broken Pencil

"...screamingly funny and extremely confrontational... Rendered in a refreshingly humanist style, Minimum Security is social commentary at it's finest." -- REDZine

"It's an alternative reality...with a touch of whimsy and a subversive kick in the shins of religiocapitalism." -- Jeff Cohen, author/media critic

"She can draw well and get her point across without being preachy - so far without being jailed for it." -- Xerography Debt

"Taking on injustice everywhere, this smart cartoonist boldly goes where others don't. All this and she's funny too!" -- Michael Kunz, publisher, Comic Relief

From the Author

My cartoons are visually cute but sharply critical, like Hello Kitty mixed with Rage Against the Machine. If you like Tom Tomorrow, Ted Rall and Get Your War On, you'll probably like these too. Kranti is the main character, an angry girl who loves trees. Bunnista is her sidekick. "Resistance through ridicule" is their way of life.

Here are a couple of comments:

"When the spirit of freedom is suppressed by the rule of fear, there is nothing as liberating as a good political cartoon. Stephanie McMillan's Minimum Security is like oxygen in our suffocating times."
-- Dr. Vandana Shiva, physicist/activist/author

"It's amazing that Stephanie McMIllan can continue to produce such trenchant, cutting cartoons.... because the light really sucks here in the LIberal Cartoonist Bloc at Guantanimo Bay, and those CIA jerks wouldn't let us have our drawing boards..."
-- Derf, cartoonist

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Product Details

• Paperback: 160 pages
• Publisher: NBM Publishing (November 1, 2005)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1561634425
• ISBN-13: 978-1561634422
• Product Dimensions: 8.2 x 11 x 0.4 inches
• Shipping Weight: 13.6 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 3.7 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (11 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #2,387,382 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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5 of 9 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Mind Blowing, October 23, 2007

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S. Aston (ON, Canada) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Attitude Featuring Stephanie McMillan: Minimum Security (Paperback)

Stephanie McMillan's "Minimum Security" online comic strip has finally been compiled into a book. Why, I don't know. Although the story lines are a little... insane, the artwork more tha... oh wait, the art looks worse than a kindergarten art class studying Pollock and the composition makes it almost unreadable. The "socio-political commentary" that so many readers "enjoy" is more of a commentary on the writers sanity and need for some serious treatment for paranoia. For the love of God stay away from this book.

13 of 22 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars A Book of Opinions, June 23, 2006

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Austin Rucker (Merkin Cap, NY) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Attitude Featuring Stephanie McMillan: Minimum Security (Paperback)

This is a book filled with political cartoons. They are all strongly leaning towards the left and the result is a huge amount of Bush bashing and Environmentalism. There are a lot of cartoons covering the current situation of liberals versus conservatives and provides a different viewpoint from that which you would see in national politics.

The only problem is that it's not funny. Sure, It's easy to get some giggles when you see your philosophical oppostion strawmanned but other than a political pie throwing contest there's isn't much in the way of humor involved.

This is pretty much the evil twin of Mallard Fillmore, only instead of an anthropomorphic Republiduck its a Pippi Longstockings and her one eyed rabbit. This book is decidedly one sided and though its a great bullhorn to spew opinions, but unless the simple line of 'Republicans are stupid' sends you into uncontrollable fits of laughter you aren't going to get more than a smirk out of this volume.

Great gift for a left leaning friend who hates art.

15 of 26 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Tiresome drivel, October 26, 2006

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E. Ryan "Chairman of the board" (Boston, MA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Attitude Featuring Stephanie McMillan: Minimum Security (Paperback)

While this comic book tries to sort out the problems of the world in a sarcastic way it falls very short of the mark. Jokes comparing Bush to Hitler are rather played out, like most of the "witty" sarcasm contained within. It's not funny. At all. The drawings are reminiscent of a parkinsons patient grocery list and the "facts" are as misguided as a horny blind man in a fish factory. If the world runs out of toilet paper, by all means get this waste of paper. Otherwise, stay far away from this garbage.