Steve Brodner is a graphic artist /journalist working in media since 1971. 

His work has appeared in most major publications in the US and has won many awards in the field of illustration.

In his career he has been a regular contributor to The New Yorker, The Nation, The New York Times, Esquire, Mother Jones, Rolling Stone, GQ, Sports Illustrated, Entertainment Weekly, Spy, The Washington Post, Los Angeles Times, Playboy, The Atlantic, Harper’s, The Village Voice, The Progressive. He was among the first to use digital technology in editorial illustration and to use animation in conjunction with a magazine series (The Naked Campaign, the New Yorker, 2007-8).

He was the first living artist to be given a solo show at The Norman Rockwell Museum (Raw Nerve, 2008).

He organized and curated exhibitions at the Society of Illustrators and The School of Visual Arts: Artists Against the War, 2006,  Art as Witness, 2017, respectively.)  He has been a part of the annual exhibitions at the Society of Illustrators for most of the last 25 years, winning gold and silver medals and the Hamilton King Award. Likewise, receiving honors at American Illustration and Communication Arts.  He was given lifetime achievement awards by his alma mater, Cooper Union (2010), and by the School of Visual Arts: the Master Series (2019). 

He painted the poster for Warren Beatty’s film Bulworth (1998), made animated shorts for PBS’ Need to Know (2012), Slate (2013), The Washington Spectator (2014) and The Alec Baldwin Show, ABC (2018).

Brodner has been a teacher of illustration and portraiture at the School of Visual Arts since 1993.

He currently has a weekly column in The Nation: The Greater Quiet. His daily newsletter is seen at stevebrodner.substack.com.

His retrospective book: Freedom Fries, was published by Fantagraphics Books in 2004.

Living and Dying in America, a compilation of his Nation column pieces, was published in 2023 by Fantagraphics Books.