Comics of Note

AV Club, The Onion

By Noel Murry, Tasha Robinson

When it comes to political commentary, there's a fine line between barbed and just plain shrill, and cartoonist Stephanie McMillan doesn't always fall on the right side of that line. But the multitude of strips collected in the 160-page Stephanie McMillan: Minimum Security (NBM) are smart and informed as well as outraged and uncompromising. The latest in the Attitude political-cartoonist series edited by Ted Rall—himself smart and informed, though more often than not just plain shrill these days—runs the gamut from snarky single-panel comics (in which McMillan's angry avatars exchange views with smug businessmen, pious religious figures, and a creepy Uncle Sam) to dense, wry, educational comics of the type more likely to directly and incisively confront political, societal, and economic inequities than the average newspaper these days.

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