Steve Brodner (born October 19, 1954, in Brooklyn, New York) is a satirical illustrator, editorial cartoonist, and caricaturist working for publications in the US since the 1970s.
[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.
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.
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.
As a young artist, Brodner entered and won first place in a major illustration competition sponsored by the Population Institute—an award presented by the legendary New York Times caricaturist Al Hirschfeld.