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Bio

Steve Greenberg is an editorial cartoonist and artist in Tempe, Arizona, recently relocated from L.A. He draws regularly for Crooksandliars.com and contributes to the Arizona Daily Star (Tucson) and other publications and websites, with his work offered for reprints via CartoonStock. He also contributes to the Cartoon Movement out of The Netherlands (the first American cartoonist invited to join) and is an award-winning infographics artist and illustrator. In recent years he has contributed to the SF Weekly (San Francisco), Sacramento Bee, Pasadena Weekly and Ventura County Reporter.

His career has included being on staff with the Ventura County Star, Los Angeles Times Community News, Outlook Newspapers (Calif.), San Francisco Chronicle, San Francisco Examiner, Seattle Post-Intelligencer, Marin Independent Journal and the Daily News of Los Angeles, and was the weekly cartoonist for Editor & Publisher magazine from 1995-98.

His cartoons have won awards most years of his career, including the 1994 Global Media Award for cartooning on overpopulation, the 1999 Grand Prize in the Homer Davenport contest and First Place in 2020, the 2010 Southern Calif. Journalism Award and several runner-ups, Citations of Excellence in the United Nations/Ranan Lurie competitions, runner-ups in the Best of the West competitions in 2019, 2017 and 2016, runner-up in the 2008 Fischetti Competition (behind the 2008 Pulitzer winner), and was a finalist for the Robert F. Kennedy Award in 1989, among other awards. In college he took the top awards in both national and statewide competitions. He has also won Society of News 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, and has been featured in Cartoonist PROfiles, The Funny Times, Hogan’s Alley and other cartooning publications.

His originals have been exhibited in cities across the U.S. and Canada and are in museums including the Cartoon Art Museum, OSU’s Billy Ireland Cartoon Museum and the Charles M. Schulz Museum. As a freelance artist, he drew the opening titles for a 1985 ABC summer TV series, “Hail to the Chief,” has written for Disney comic books, and has been a cartoonist/writer contributor to Mad magazine. A self-published book of environmental cartoons, “Fine-Tooning the Planet,” came out in early 2008. He also draws a monthly self-syndicated comic strip for “50-and-older” publications, begun in 2011 as “Boomerish” but renamed “Doing Grayt” in 2022.

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 and Cartoonists Northwest.