Steve has been an editorial/political cartoonist and illustrator for half a century, on staff at daily newspapers in his native Los Angeles, Seattle, the San Francisco area and Ventura County, Calif., winning numerous awards and being reprinted in major publications. He moved to Lake Chapala in May 2025 and currently freelances to the Arizona Daily Star newspaper in Tucson, the liberal political website Crooksandliars.com, a couple of alt-weeklies and other places including locally in Lakeside News. He's generally respected by his peers for focusing more on making a point than making a gag.

His career has included being an award-winning newspaper infographics artist and illustrator, doing a bit of drawing and writing for Mad magazine and Disney comic books, drawing the opening titles for a 1985 summer television series on ABC, "Hail to the Chief" and doing a comic strip for the 55-and-older crowd called "Doing Grayt." His cartoon originals have been exhibited in cities across the U.S. and Canada and are in archives of San Francisco's Cartoon Art Museum and Ohio State University's Billy Ireland Cartoon Museum and Library.

When he's not irritating people with his political cartoons, he loves figure and portrait drawing from the live model (and hopes to find opportunities to do so here), often using colored pencils, is fairly new to painting (mostly oils but dabbling in watercolors) and draws with the local Urban Sketchers group.