Just in from New York Review, it's... Michael McMIllan's Terminal Exposure!  

There's something for everyone here:  starting out with an under coating of Fleischer Brothers animation, McMillan assembled an ouevre with a native tendency towards omnivorous scavaging that shows evidence a wide-ranging foraging in the forests of comics and art.  We noticed hints of Kim Deitch, (a PG-Rated) S. Clay Wilson on the one hand, Basil Wolverton and C.C. Beck on another, a heaping helping of Hairy Who with sides of Philip Guston and Red Grooms, followed by a course of B. Kliban and Rick Geary, all thrown together in an original synthesis that shows his fine art tendencies mixing it up with his pop culture proclivities that led to a form of comics that presages the likes of Michael Kupperman, Joan Cornellà and has informed plenty more, all while, of course, making for uniquely engaging reads in and of themselves.

And here's what NYRC has to say about it:

Michael McMillan has said he’s “not really a cartoonist,” but the evidence suggests otherwise. Born and raised in California, he was a draftsman and industrial designer by trade before he plunged into the burgeoning San Francisco underground comix scene of the early 1970s. He drew for legendary publications such as Weirdo, Young Lust, Lemme Outa Here!, Arcade, and produced his own one-issue wonder, Terminal Comics. But just as often he drew for himself, playing with the form of comics out of the sight of readers.

He reimagined the kinds of stories single-panel, two-panel, and many-panel strips could tell and blended favorite genres from his childhood (horror, sword-and-sandal, science fiction) with more mature themes (autobiography, dating, sex) to create new and striking forms.

Terminal Exposure brings together McMillan’s comics for the first time, alongside a selection of his electrifying sculptures, his eye-popping paintings, and stunning pages from his rock climbing journals. With an introduction by Dan Nadel, this volume offers a comprehensive portrait of an exceptional artist, sculptor, climber, and—yes—cartoonist.

I am one of the people who has been waiting for this collection for a long, long time. I hope lots of us time travelers will find this book and enter Michael’s unique, entrancing, gently enfolding world.
—Gary Panter

He is the purest artist I’ve ever known.
—Bill Griffith

Series: New York Review Comics
ISBN: 9781681379319
Pages: 248
Publication Date: July 22, 2025