#peter steiner

Original Art - New Yorker Cartoon (July1993)

"On The Internet, Nobody Knows You're A Dog"

Bio: I first showed cartoons to The New Yorker in 1965 and then tried again in 1977 after a brief career as a college professor. All that time, though, I was selling cartoons to little underground papers and the like. Once I started submitting seriously in '77, it took about 2 years to sell something to The New Yorker. I eventually got published lots of places as a freelance—The Wall Street Journal, The Nation, Saturday Review, Saturday Evening Post, and eventually had a regular job as a cartoonist with The Washington Times and The Weekly Standard.  I'm also the author of five novels, with a sixth one on the way.

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My favorite New Yorker cartoon is difficult—they're all my children. I suppose maybe "Human resources." I'm fond of the drawing and the idea.

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Tools of choice: I use a speedball pen with a B-6 point, although toward the end of my career I started carving my own pens from hollow weeds.  Each one was completely different, and you had almost no control over the line. 

I often use a watercolor wash (although these days, for my blog, I work fast so I use Pigma pens and  color pencils).  I use india ink and draw on Fabriano cold press watercolor paper.  It's got a rough surface; I like the unpredictability (although these days, for my blog, I work fast so I use Pigma pens and  color pencils).  I use a light table to redraw until the drawing loosens up.  Being left handed, I always draw from upper right to lower left.

Tool I wish existed: I pretty much like what's available.

Website, etc.  

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Books

Editor’s note: Peter has a lot of great political cartoons on his blog!