The official publication date of Stephanie’s new comics-journalism book about the Occupy movement, “The Beginning of the American Fall,” is tomorrow, Tuesday, November 13. It is AWESOME.
For those planning to purchase it from Amazon, I’d like to ask you a favor: if you do it on Tuesday (tomorrow), you’ll bump up the sales rank on that site, making it more visible and increasing sales overall.
Here’s the Amazon link.
It’s also available from her directly.
Reviews:
One of Publishers Weekly‘s Top Ten Graphic Novels for Fall 2012!
“American Fall is the definitive, thrilling and inspiring account of the beginning of the first major street-level protest movement since the 1960s: the Occupy Wall Street movement. Stephanie McMillan’s stunning illustrations, personal accounts and first-hand analysis documents the most exciting event in U.S. politics in generations.”
—Ted Rall, author of The Anti-American Manifesto
“Stephanie McMillan is an important and courageous political philosopher. This book movingly shows important lessons we can learn from the Occupy
Movement and apply as we move forward toward the revolution we so desperately need.”
—Derrick Jensen, author of Endgame, and A Language Older Than Words
Summary:
Can a cartoonist and millions of random strangers change the world? The initial stages of their attempt are chronicled in this book of comics-journalism and written observations.
Stephanie McMillan, long-time activist and cartoonist, has waited her entire life for the American people to rise up. Sparked by uprisings around the world, a new movement bursts onto the national scene against a system that denies the people a decent life and puts the planet at risk.
With delightful full-color drawings, interviews, dialogue, description, and insightful reflections, this book chronicles the first several months of the fragile and contradictory movement. It situates detailed personal experiences and representative narratives within the broad context of a truly unique and historical global conjuncture. This book will stand as a record of the emerging movement in accessible comics form.
