The beginning of the American fall: a comics journalist inside the Occupy Wall Street Movement

Can a cartoonist and millions of random strangers change the world?

The initial stages of their attempt arechronicled 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 riseup.

Sparked by uprisings around the world, a new movement bursts onto the national scene against a systemthat denies the people a decent life and puts the planet at risk.

With delightful drawings, interviews, dialogue, description, and insightful reflections, this book chronicles thefirst several months of the fragile and contradictory movement.

It situates detailed personal experiences andrepresentative narratives within the broad context of a truly unique and historical global conjuncture.

This bookwill stand as a record of the emerging movement in accessible comics form.