The LA Times and I cooked up this Fourth of July Special, based on the premise that such an unconstitutional entity as Donald Trump, who every day writes his own laws, needs his own Bill of Rights seen in print.
Honored to have Safety Last, my commentary on the Fool on the Hill’s possession of nuclear codes, selected by the American Illustration jury this year. Not too funny, eh?
The Great Unraveling. Slowly and then all at once.
Gues who’s tryin got kill the electric car now? Those crazy Koch Brothers. This time it may be too late. For Sierra magazine.
2020 began early for me with this Harper’s cover. The many reasons to think hard about Biden.
Alec Baldwin asked me to create a series of animations for his TV show in 2018. The series was done with the brilliant Richard Borge and you can see some of them HERE.
Alec, BTW, was the perfect partner for the project. Smart and funny and, yeah, in synch.
Looks like I’m in storage! And that’s thanks to the Master’s Series at SVA, asking me for 50 years’ worth of madness from the vaults. So here goes. It should all be sorted out by Oct, 10, the day of the opening gala. Of course you are all invited. These old toons have about six months to get themselves into shape to march across the walls at the gallery on W. 26th. It will be a challenge, especially for some of these old-timers. But I remain hopeful. And very deeply honored. Thank you.
For the Washington Post:
The Trump Ring.
Baboon Buffoon Tycoon
This has been a very generous awards season to me and all here at the Schmudio.
Of course this is a double edged honor. We would be much better off without the subject matter. We are like funeral directors. When times are bad we do well. Still very grateful for the recognition. And the encouragement in keeping it up.
Thanks to LA Times, Vanity Fair, American Bystander, The Washington Post and the editors and designers who make illustration still a living and sometimes volatile animal. Thank you!
How the media got this way: part of a double page spread appearing in Columbia Journalism Review. See the rest HERE.
Trump’s Final Cuts of Oscar nominees.
Jurassic Year, Washington Post.
Jurassic Year, before color.
Happy Holidays from the Breit House. LA Times.
Dance of the sugar plumb fascists.
All together now.
In the new Vanity Fair: for an incisive story by Garry Wills, one of my favorite writers. Who is Trump like? My solution: the #Murderclown is like nobody. Nixon, Wallace, McCarthy shocked to their socks (Cohn not so much.)
My latest cover for The Nation. Deplorables galore.
This image for The Washington Post marks Trump’s 100 Days in office.
Great thanks to Adam Kushner, editor and Chris Ruken, designer for making this happen.
Prints are now available HERE.
THE WHITE HOUSE CIVIL WARS.
DJT.
Ivanka.
Spicer.
Kush.
Mark Meadows (Freedom Caucus.)
Pence.
THE COURT OF KING DONALD I
(This image available as a Giclee print: https://society6.com/stevebrodner)
I was working on a big Hillary Inauguration piece for the LA Times in October and got pretty far with it. The idea was to have all the important characters in Washington and media at the ceremony all smeared with orange slime.
Then, well, you know.
I needed, as we all did, time to figure out what had just happened. Gradually the replacement became clearer: President Pumpkin was, as a tin pot autocrat, to himself and his followers, a kind of king. Then I thought of Goya’s magnificent portrait of King Charles IV of Spain, where he mercilessly caricatured them (and they loved it, BTW.) Charles is a nothing, an empty vessel. You can make this case for Trump. He sells whatever the “mark” is buying. The family of Cankerous Cumquat is roughly the same size. The gilt-edged lifestyle, also a good fit. So I began.
Here’s the final, details and process shots. It is darned good to be an illustrator when your deepest feelings can find a form. I marched around DC with a lot of you yesterday. Both things gave me the same feeling. That we are at the beginning of a movement of great power. Let us hope.
It took a couple of weeks to finish with the absolutely wonderful support of Susan Brenneman and Wesley Bausmith at the Times.
CHEETO MUSSOLINI HIMSELF.
Kushners, Priebus, Christie, Conway.
Ivanka, Putin.
Price, Mattis & Co
Stephen Bannon, The American Bystander.
American Journal.
The Resistance.
The Legacy of Obama.
The Nation
Trump and the Khans. The Nation.
A Troll. For Time Magazine. Click here for 2016 published work:
