Steve Brodner

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Steve Brodner
Born (1954-10-19) October 19, 1954 (age 68)
Brooklyn, New York, U.S.
NationalityAmerican
Area(s)Cartoonist, Illustrator
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www.stevebrodner.com

Steve Brodner (born October 19, 1954, in Brooklyn, New York) is a satirical illustrator 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 to GQ, The Nation, Newsweek, The Washington Post , and The Los Angeles Times , Brodner's art journalism has appeared in most major magazines and newspapers in the United States, such as Rolling Stone, The New York Times, The New Yorker, Esquire, Time, Playboy, Mother Jones, Harper's , and The Atlantic . [2] His work, first widely seen exposing and attacking Reagan 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 ]

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Early life and education

Brodner attended Cooper Union, in New York City and graduated in 1976 with a Bachelor of Fine Arts Degree. Brodner went on to work briefly for the Hudson Dispatch in Hudson County, New Jersey, after leaving college. [1]

Career

Between 1979 and 1982 he self-published the New York Illustrated News, [3] which featured his work as well as those of colleagues. In 1977, he began his freelance career with The New York Times Book Review , working with Steven Heller, art director. Soon he was working with Lewis Lapham and Sheila Wolfe at Harper's Magazine on a monthly page of commentary entitled Ars Politica. [4]

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 for Esquire under the editorships of Lee Eisenberg, David Hirshey and the designer, Rip Georges. During and after Esquire it was on to Spy Magazine and then to The New Yorker , under Tina Brown and then David Remnick, Chris Curry, Caroline Maihot, and Françoise Mouly, art directors. At Rolling Stone, under Jann Wenner and Amid Capesi, art director, Brodner was the film review artist, working with Peter Travers, and later a series for the National Affairs page with Matt Taibbi and others. [4]

Art journalism

In visual essays, Brodner has covered eight national political conventions for Esquire, 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 in The Progressive. Shots From Guns, an art documentary about the Colt Firearms strike in Hartford, Connecticut, appeared in Northeast magazine in 1989.

For The New Yorker he covered Oliver North and the 1994 Virginia Senate race, the Patrick Buchanan presidential campaign, the Million Man March (1995) and an advance story on the 1996 Democratic Convention in Chicago. [5] That same year, The Washington Post asked him to profile the Bob Dole presidential campaign. In spring of 1997 he wrote and drew a ten-page article on the South by Southwest Music Festival for Texas Monthly . That summer, Brodner climbed Mount Fuji with author Susan Orlean as an art-journalist for Outside Magazine [6] and later that year he did a piece on the New York City mayoral campaign for New York magazine. His eight-page profile of George W. Bush appeared in Esquire 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 for Philadelphia Magazine . Texas Monthly published his ten-page story on Colonias (Mexican Americans along the Texas border), called "In America"; in May 2005 and in 2007 he traversed the Texas State Capitol at Austin in a freewheeling story for Texas Monthly.

Television and video

In the fall of 1996, Brodner was featured in PBS Frontline 's The Choice, as artist and commentator on the Clinton/Dole race. [7] In December 2007, Brodner began a series of online videos, The Naked Campaign, at The New Yorker website, offering his take on the 2008 Presidential campaign. [8] 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 on Slate .

Awards

Brodner has had his work honored in juried annuals of American Illustration, Society of Illustrators, and Communication Arts continuously for over 20 years.[ citation needed ]

Bibliography

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  2. ↑ "Faculty: Steve Brodner" . Retrieved 2021-04-18.
  3. ↑ Zaitchik, Alexander. "Illustrator at War". New York Press. Archived from the original on 2008-12-03. Retrieved 2008-05-19.
  4. 1 2 "2018 Prize Finalist Steve Brodner" . Retrieved 2021-04-18.
  5. ↑ Groth, Gary; Mack White (2004). The Bush Junta: Cartoonists on the Mayberry Machiavelli and the Abuse of Power. Fantagraphics Books. p.  215. ISBN   1-56097-612-8.
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