Editorial cartooning

Stephanie McMillan wins RFK award

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Alan Gardner May 9, 2012 1 minute 2 comments

The Robert F. Kennedy Center for Justice and Human Rights has announced this year’s winners of the RFK Book and Journalism Award. In the category of cartooning the honor went to Stephanie McMillan for her series The Beginning of the American Fall and her environmentally themed editorial cartoons entitled Code Green.

Michael Cavna interviews Stephanie about the honor:

“The award is supposed to honor work that furthers the cause of social justice, and I’m gratified that my work is viewed that way,” McMillan tells Comic Riffs on Tuesday. “Contributing to the fight for social justice is, indeed, the reason I do the work in the first place.