Bio
Born in Los Angeles (Hollywood, actually!), Steve Greenberg draws regularly for Crooksandliars.com and the Arizona Daily Star (Tucson) plus other publications and websites including the Cartoon Movement, where he was the first American cartoonist invited to join.
His drawing career has included being on staff with the Ventura County Star, Seattle Post-Intelligencer, San Francisco Chronicle, San Francisco Examiner, Marin Independent Journal and Daily News of Los Angeles. His freelancing has included the Sacramento Bee, SF Weekly (San Francisco), Pasadena Weekly and Ventura County Reporter, and he was the weekly cartoonist for Editor & Publisher magazine from 1995-98.
His cartoons have won numerous awards including the 2025 Grand Prize in the Homer Davenport contest and First Place in 2020, the 2010 Southern Calif. Journalism Award, runner-ups in the Best of the West for 2019, 2017 and 2016 and in the 2008 Fischetti Competition, the 1994 Global Media Award for cartooning on overpopulation, three Citations of Excellence in the United Nations/Ranan Lurie competitions and was a finalist for the Robert F. Kennedy Award in 1989. In college at California State University Long Beach he won the top awards in both national and statewide competitions. Additionally, he is also an award-winning infographics artist and illustrator and has won Society of News Design awards for his graphics work.
He has had reprints in The New York Times, The Washington Post, Washington Post Weekly, Los Angeles Times, Chicago Tribune, Milwaukee Journal, St. Petersburg Times, Tokyo’s Asahi Shimbun, Time, U.S. News, The New Republic, The Funny Times, Sierra and many other publications, was featured in Cartoonist PROfiles and is the writer about editorial cartooning for Hogan’s Alley magazine.
He has been a cartoonist/writer contributor to Mad magazine, has written for Disney comic books and drew the opening titles for a 1985 ABC summer TV series, “Hail to the Chief.” 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.
