His dishonorably discharged grandfather taught him how to draw.
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Mr. McMillan completed a 30-year career as an illustrator with the federal government, most of that time at the U.S. Information Agency where he helped produce Amerika Illustrated, an American magazine sent to Russia and Poland during the Cold War.