- Steve Breen
Stephen Paul Breen (born
April 26 ,1970 in Los Angeles,California ) is a nationally syndicated cartoonist.He graduated from
Huntington Beach High School in 1988 and attended theUniversity of California, Riverside , where he earned a bachelor's degree inpolitical science . It was at UCR that he started drawing editorial cartoons for his school paper, The Highlander.In 1991, Steve won the
Scripps Howard Charles M. Schulz Award as the top college cartoonist and theJohn Locher award for Outstanding College Editorial Cartoonist. He was influenced by cartoonists such asJeff MacNelly ,Paul Conrad ,Pat Oliphant andDon Wright .Breen was about to become a high school history teacher when the
Asbury Park Press offered him a job in the art department in July 1994. He became the full-time editorial cartoonist there in 1996. In April 1998, Breen won thePulitzer Prize for editorial cartooning.In July 2001, he returned to his home state to join the staff of
The San Diego Union-Tribune . His editorial cartoons are nationally syndicated byCopley News Service and regularly appear inThe New York Times ,USA Today ,Newsweek andUS News andWorld Report . His comic strip "Grand Avenue" appears in more than 150 newspapers across the country.Steve, his wife Cathy, and their three young sons and a daughter live in
Encinitas, California .
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