Steve Brodner Bio | Wiki
Steve Brodner is an American satirical illustrator and caricaturist. He has been working for publications in the US since the 1970s. Steve serves as a regular contributor to The Washington Post, Newsweek, The Nation, GQ, and The Los Angeles Times. He joined the fields of journalism and the graphic arts as a master of the editorial idiom.
Steve’s art journalism has appeared in most major magazines and newspapers such as Harper’s, Rolling Stone, Mother Jones, The New York Times, Playboy, The New Yorker, Time, Esquire, and The Atlantic. At first, his work was widely seen exposing and attacking Reagan Era scandals. He is credited with helping spearhead the 1980s revival of pointed as well as entertaining graphic commentary in the US. Currently, Steve is working on a book about the presidents of the United States.
Steve was featured in PBS Frontline’s The Choice in the fall of 1996 as an artist and commentator on the Clinton/Dole race. He started a series of online videos called The Naked Campaign in December 2007. The videos were made available on The New Yorker website offering his take on the 2008 Presidential campaign. Steve has been producing videos for PBS’ Need to Know, with a semi-regular commentary feature called “An Editorial by Steve Brodner,” since 2010. His series of short political videos called “Smashing Crayons”, ran on Slate in the spring of 2010.
Steve Brodner Age
He was born on October 19, 1954, in Brooklyn, New York, United States of America. Steve is 67 years old.
Steve Brodner Height
He is a man of average stature. Steve stands at a height of 5 ft 7 in ( Approx 1.7 m)
Steve Brodner Family
He was born and raised by his parents in Brooklyn, New York, United States of America. Steve is a bit secretive when it comes to his family information. He has not shared any details about his parents or siblings.
Steve Brodner Wife
He is married to a beutiful woman called Cynthia Rose. Their daughter Terri Brodner is a children’s book author and illustrator. She celebrates her birthday in June 9 every year. The family lives in New York
Steve Brodner Education
He graduated from Cooper Union, in New York City in1976 earning a Bachelor of Fine Arts Degree. After leaving college, Steve went on to work briefly for the Hudson Dispatch in Hudson County, New Jersey,
Steve Brodner Art
He self-published the New York Illustrated News between 1979 and 1982. It featured Steve’s work and those of colleagues. He started his freelance career with The New York Times Book Review in 1977. At first, Steve worked with art director Steven Heller. He was soon working at Harper’s Magazine with Lewis Lapham and Sheila Wolfe on a monthly page of commentary entitled Ars Politica. Steve became a regular contributor to magazines across the US the following year.
He eventually became house artist, writer, and artist of monthly back pages for Esquire. Steve worked under the editorship of David Hirshey, Lee Eisenberg, and the designer, Rip Georges. It was on to Spy Magazine and then to The New Yorker during and after Esquire under Tina Brown and later David Remnick, Caroline Maihot, Chris Curry, and Françoise Mouly, art directors. Steve was the film review artist at Rolling Stone under Jann Wenner and Amid Capesi, art director.
He worked with Peter Travers. He also worked with Matt Taibbi and others on a series for the National Affairs page. In visual essays, Steve has covered eight national political conventions for The Progressive, Esquire, The Village Voice, and others. He wrote an article titled “Plowed Under,”contains a series of portraits and interviews with beleaguered farm families in the Midwest, and ran in The Progressive.
In 1989, an art documentary called Shots From Guns, about the Colt Firearms strike in Hartford, Connecticut, appeared in Northeast magazine. Steve covered Oliver North and the 1994 Virginia Senate race for The New Yorker. He as well covered the Patrick Buchanan presidential campaign, the 1995 Million Man March, and the 1996’s advance story on the Democratic Convention in Chicago.
Steve Brodner Washington Post
The Washington Post asked Steve to profile the Bob Dole presidential campaign in 1986. He wrote and drew a ten-page article on the South by Southwest Music Festival in the spring of 1997 for Texas Monthly. That summer, Steve and author Susan Orlean climbed Mount Fuji as an art journalists for Outside Magazine. Later that year, he did a piece on the New York City mayoral campaign for New York magazine. Steve has written an eight-page profile of George W. Bush that appeared in Esquire in October 1998.
In this profile, Steve said to him, “Maybe I’ll see you in national politics next year, maybe not. Either way, I have a cool life.” He dealt with the difficult issue of guns in 2000 in Pennsylvania for Philadelphia Magazine. His ten-page story on Colonias (Mexican Americans along the Texas border) called “In America” was published by Texas Monthly. Steve traversed the Texas State Capitol at Austin in May 2005 and in 2007 in a freewheeling story for Texas Monthly.
Steve Brodner Books
– Fold and Tuck (Doubleday, 1990)
– Davy Crockett: The Legendary Frontiersman (Simon & Schuster, 1995)
– Freedom Fries (Fantagraphics Books, 2003)
– Artists Against the War (Underwood Books, 2011) (editor)
– Bingsop’s Fables: Little Morals for Big Business, written by Stanley Bing (Harper Business, 2011) (illustrator)
– The Bush Junta: A Field Guide to Corruption in Government, edited by Gary Groth and Mack White (Fantagraphics Books, 2004) (contributor)
Steve Brodner Salary
He is a regular contributor on various magazines. Steve earns an average salary of $96,593 per year.
Steve Brodner Net Worth
His artwork has enabled him to accumulate an estimated net worth of $3,683,794.
How Old Is Steve Brodner
Steve is 67 years old. He was born on October 19, 1954, in Brooklyn, New York, United States of America.
Is Steve Brodner Married
He is happily married to Cynthia Rose. The couple has a daughter called Terri Brodner. Terri is a children’s book author and illustrator. The family lives in New York