| Steve Brodner | |
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| Born | (1954-10-19)October 19, 1954 (age 70) Brooklyn, New York, U.S. |
| Nationality | American |
| Area(s) | Cartoonist, Illustrator |
| Awards | See full list |
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Steve Brodner (born October 19, 1954, inBrooklyn, New York) is a satirical illustrator, editorial cartoonist, and caricaturist working for publications in the US since the 1970s. He is accepted in the fields of journalism and the graphic arts as a master of the editorial idiom.[1] Currently a regular contributor toGQ,The Nation,Newsweek,The Washington Post, andLos Angeles Times, Brodner's art journalism has appeared in major magazines and newspapers in the United States, such asRolling Stone,The New York Times,The New Yorker,Esquire,Time,Playboy,Mother Jones,Harper's, andThe Atlantic.[2] His work, first widely seen exposing and attackingReagan Era scandals, is credited with helping spearhead the 1980s revival of pointed and entertaining graphic commentary in the US. He is currently working on a book about the presidents of the United States.[citation needed] He posts to his blog, The Greater Quiet on Substack.[3]
Brodner attendedCooper Union in New York City and graduated in 1976 with aBachelor of Fine Arts Degree. Brodner went on to work briefly for theHudson Dispatch inHudson County, New Jersey, after leaving college.[1]
Between 1979 and 1982 he self-published theNew York Illustrated News,[4] which featured his work as well as those of colleagues. In 1977, he began his freelance career withThe New York Times Book Review, working withSteven Heller, art director. Soon he was working withLewis Lapham and Sheila Wolfe atHarper's Magazine on a monthly page of commentary entitledArs Politica.[5]
In the following year he became a regular contributor to magazines across the US, eventually becoming house artist as well as writer and artist of monthly back pages forEsquire under the editorships ofLee Eisenberg,David Hirshey and the designer, Rip Georges. During and afterEsquire it was on toSpy Magazine and then toThe New Yorker, underTina Brown and thenDavid Remnick, Chris Curry, Caroline Maihot, andFrançoise Mouly, art directors. AtRolling Stone, underJann Wenner and Amid Capesi, art director, Brodner was the film review artist, working withPeter Travers, and later a series for the National Affairs page withMatt Taibbi and others.[5]
In visual essays, Brodner has covered eight national political conventions forEsquire,The Progressive,The Village Voice and others.
His article "Plowed Under," a series of portraits and interviews with beleaguered farm families in the Midwest, ran inThe Progressive.Shots From Guns, an art documentary about theColt Firearms strike inHartford, Connecticut, appeared inNortheast magazine in 1989.
ForThe New Yorker he coveredOliver North and the 1994 Virginia Senate race, thePatrick Buchanan presidential campaign, theMillion Man March (1995) and an advance story on the 1996 Democratic Convention in Chicago.[6] That same year,The Washington Post asked him to profile theBob Dole presidential campaign. In spring of 1997 he wrote and drew a ten-page article on theSouth by Southwest Music Festival forTexas Monthly. That summer, Brodner climbedMount Fuji with authorSusan Orlean as an art-journalist forOutside Magazine[7] and later that year he did a piece on the New York City mayoral campaign forNew York magazine. His eight-page profile ofGeorge W. Bush appeared inEsquire in October 1998, in which Bush said to him, “Maybe I’ll see you in national politics next year, maybe not. Either way, I have a cool life.”[citation needed]
In 2000, he dealt with the difficult issue of guns in Pennsylvania forPhiladelphia Magazine.Texas Monthly published his ten-page story onColonias (Mexican Americans along the Texas border), called "In America"; in May 2005 and in 2007 he traversed theTexas State Capitol at Austin in a freewheeling story forTexas Monthly.
As a young artist, Brodner entered and won first place in a major illustration competition sponsored by the Population Institute—an award presented by the legendaryNew York Times caricaturist Al Hirschfeld. Following the award publicity he subsequently appeared on the1974-75 season of the popular game showTo Tell The Truth where he failed to fool any of the panelists who all voted for him, except forPeggy Cass who disqualified herself from voting as she had seen his picture in the paper.
In the fall of 1996, Brodner was featured in PBSFrontline'sThe Choice, as artist and commentator on theClinton/Dole race.[8] In December 2007, Brodner began a series of online videos,The Naked Campaign, atThe New Yorker website, offering his take on the 2008 Presidential campaign.[9] Since 2010 he has been producing videos for PBS'Need to Know, with "An Editorial by Steve Brodner," a semi-regular commentary feature. In the spring of 2010, his series of short political videos, "Smashing Crayons", ran onSlate.
Brodner has had his work honored in juried annuals ofAmerican Illustration,Society of Illustrators, andCommunication Arts continuously for over 20 years.[citation needed]
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