Steve Greenberg
Steve Greenberg is an editorial cartoonist and illustrator in Southern California, most recently with the Ventura County Star near Los Angeles. He was earlier with the Seattle Post-Intelligencer, San Francisco Examiner, San Francisco Chronicle, Marin Independent Journal and the Daily News of Los Angeles, was the contributing cartoonist for Editor & Publisher magazine in 1995-98 and is currently the contributing cartoonist for the Ventura County Reporter and the Jewish Journal of Los Angeles; the latter cartoons are self-syndicated nationally.
His cartoons have won awards nearly every year of his career, including runner-up in the 2008 Fischetti Editorial Cartoon Competition (behind the 2008 Pulitzer winner), Citations of Excellence in the U.N./Ranan Lurie cartooning competition in 2006 and 2007, runner up in the 2008 "Science Idol" from the Union of Concerned Scientists, winner of the 1994 Global Media Award for cartooning on overpopulation (presented in Cairo, Egypt, at the U.N. Population Conference), the 1999 Grand Prize in the Homer Davenport contest, several Rockower Awards from the Jewish press, three Free Press Association Mencken Award runner-ups, four first places from the Washington Press Association, winning the Center for Defense Information "Star Wars" competition in 1986, several runner-ups in multi-state Society of Professional Journalists competitions, and receiving the first Cartoonist of the Year award from Cartoonists Northwest. In college he took the top awards in both national and statewide competitions. He has also won one individual and five shared Society of Newspaper Design awards for his graphics work.
He has had reprints in The New York Times, The Washington Post and Washington Post Weekly, Los Angeles Times, Chicago Tribune, Milwaukee Journal, St. Petersburg Times, Tokyo's Asahi Shimbun, Time, U.S. News, The New Republic, Sierra and many other publications, plus reprints in seventy books. He has been featured in Cartoonist PROfiles, The Funny Times, Comic Relief, Hogan's Alley (where he is a contributing columnist) and other cartooning publications.
His originals have been exhibited in cities across the U.S., Canada and overseas, and are in several archives and museums including San Francisco's Cartoon Art Museum, Ohio State University, the Charles M. Schulz Museum and the Newseum. As a freelance artist, he drew the opening titles for a 1985 summer television series on ABC, "Hail to the Chief," has written for Disney comic books, and is a sometimes cartoonist/writer contributor to Mad magazine. His first book, "Fine-Tooning the Planet" came out in early 2008.
Born in Los Angeles (Hollywood), he received a BFA in Art from California State University Long Beach, where his editorial cartoons ran in two campus newspapers. He is a member of the Association of American Editorial Cartoonists, the National Cartoonists Society, the Comic Art Professional Society of Los Angeles, and Cartoonists Northwest. He and his wife reside near the Ventura County/Los Angeles County border.
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