Steve Brodner

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name = Steve Brodner


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nationality = American
field = illustration
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works = Book "Freedom Fries" (2004)
Book "Sharing the Pie : A Citizen's Guide to Wealth and Power" (1998)
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Steve Brodner (b. October 19, 1954 in Brooklyn, New York) is an American satirical illustrator and caricaturist known primarily for his work regarding the American political arena. Brodner's illustration work and art journalism appear in publications such as The Village Voice, Mother Jones, The Chronicle Review, The New York Times, Esquire, Time, Newsweek, Spy, Playboy, Premiere, Harper's, The Los Angeles Times, Rolling Stone, The Nation, and The New Yorker.

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, NJ after leaving college. He then self-published the New York Illustrated News between 1979 and 1982. [cite news | first=Alexander | last=Zaitchik | coauthors= | title=Illustrator at War | date= | publisher= | url =http://www.nypress.com/17/34/books/books.cfm | work =New York Press | pages = | accessdate = 2008-05-19 | language = ] In 1981 he was a staff artist for Harper's magazine.

Art journalism

As an art-journalist, Brodner has covered seven national political conventions for Esquire, The Progressive, The Village Voice and others. In an article, "Plowed Under", Broder conducted a series of portraits and interviews with hard-hit farm families in the Midwest, which ran in the May 1987 issue of The Progressive. "Shots From Guns", Brodner's documentary about the Colt Firearms strike in Hartford, Connecticut appeared in Northeast Magazine in 1989. For The New Yorker, Brodner covered Oliver North and the 1994 Virginia Senate race as well as the the Million Man March(1995), the Pat Buchanan presidential campaign of 1996, and an advance story on the Democratic Convention in Chicago, 1996. [cite book | last = Groth | first = Gary | authorlink = | coauthors = Mack White | title = The Bush Junta: Cartoonists on the Mayberry Machiavelli and the Abuse of Power | publisher = Fantagraphics Books | year = 2004 | location = | pages = 215 | url = | doi = | id = | isbn = 156-0976128 ] In 1996, Brodner appeared on PBS television's "Front Line" for several episodes, covering the presidential campaign of that same year. [ cite web|url=http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/choice/script.html |title=frontline: the choice '96: Tapes & Transcripts / PBS |accessdate=2008-05-24 |date=1996-10-08 |work=Front Line, PBS |publisher=PBS ] In 1997, Brodner climbed Mount Fuji with author Susan Orlean as an art-journalist for Outside Magazine. [http://outside.away.com/outside/magazine/1097/9710transcend.html]

Online contributions

In December 2007, Brodner began a series of online videos directed by Gail Levine at The New Yorker website titled "The Naked Campaign", which chronicle and express his own views on the 2008 Presidential campaign. [ cite web|url=http://www.newyorker.com/online/nakedcampaign/videos |title=The Naked Campaign: Online Only: The New Yorker |accessdate=2008-05-19 |work=The New Yorker ] . At the same time, Brodner began his "Person of the Day" series, in which he caricatures people in news. Brodner's "Person of the day" series are published online both at his own personal blog [http://www.drawger.com/stevebrodner/] and at the
Mother Jones website [http://www.motherjones.com/commentary/brodner/archive.html] as of January, 2007.

Awards

*Aronson Award for Social Justice Journalism (2000) [cite news | first= | last= | coauthors= | title=The James Aronson Award for Social Justice Journalism | date= | publisher=Hunter College | url =http://filmmedia.hunter.cuny.edu/aronson/ | accessdate = 2008-05-21 ]
*Society of Illustrators, Hamilton King Award (2005) [ cite web|url=http://societyillustrators.org/honors/hof/index.cms |title=The Society of Illustrators - Hall of fame |accessdate=2008-05-21 |publisher=Society of Illustrators ]
*Society of Illustrators, Gold Medal in the sequential category (2006) [cite news | first= | last= | coauthors= | title=Society of Illustrators - Sequencial Category, 2006 | date= | publisher=Society of Illustrators | url =http://stage.societyillustrators.org/honors/annual/282.cms | accessdate = 2008-05-21 ]
*Society of Publication Designers, merit award (1995) [cite news | title=Texas Monthly Awards | date= | publisher=Texas Monthly | url =http://www.texasmonthly.com/awards | accessdate = 2008-05-21 ]

Bibliography

*Davy Crockett: The Legendary Frontiersman (ISBN 0-689-80189-0)
*Fold and Tuck (ISBN 0-385-41164-2)
*Freedom Fries (2004) (ISBN 1-560-97593-8)
*The Bush Junta: A Field Guide to Corruption in Government (ISBN 1-560-97612-8)
*Sharing the Pie: A Citizen's Guide to Wealth and Power (ISBN 0-805-05206-2)

External links

* [http://www.stevebrodner.com/ Artist's personal website]
* [http://illoz.com/stevebrodner Additional illustration portfolio of artist] at [http://illoz.com illoz]
* [http://www.drawger.com/stevebrodner/ Person of the day blog]

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