Steve Kelley of the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette is a syndicated editorial cartoonist, comic strip creator, comedian, and writer.
After two decades, he moved to the New Orleans Times-Picayune in 2002[1] following an incident at the Union Tribune involving a cartoon he had submitted to his editors, depicting two teenagers wearing baggy low-cut pants that did not completely cover their buttocks.
[2] Kelley and formerFlorida Today editorial cartoonist Jeff Parker, who also worked on Mother Goose and Grimm and Blondie in the past, created and produce the comic strip Dustin, which debuted in early 2010.
[5] Early in his career, Kelley began writing and performing comedy at the Improv and The Comedy Store in San Diego a pursuit that led to seven appearances on The Tonight Show, and work as the opening act in major venues for numerous performers including The Gatlin Brothers, Lou Rawls, Dolly Parton, Reba McEntire, and Bernadette Peters.
He served as a 2008 Montgomery Fellow at Dartmouth College and was editor of Pelican Publishing's 2013 edition of Best Editorial Cartoons of the Year.