Beginning his career as a punk art pioneer in the late 1970s, Steve designed eighteen record sleeves in just two years — his work for Joy Division was later displayed at the Museum of Modern Art in New York City, and his iconic designs for Slaughter and the Dogs are still the hallmark look of the band nearly five decades later.
Steve’s newspaper and magazine work has been appearing in international syndication since the 1980s. The daily comic strips he created for UK national newspapers include “Badlands,” which ran for a dozen years in The Sun, “The Diary of Rock & Pop” in The Daily Star, and “Pop Culture” in Today. His magazine clients range from such seminal British comics as Romeo, Tiger, Look-in, Oink and Viz to SIforKids and MAD Magazine in the USA. When The Sunday People launched his “20th Century Heroes” series in the late 1990s, they hailed him as “the world’s top cartoonist.” His two current comic strips are syndicated to more than 200 newspapers worldwide.
A groundbreaking soccer artist, Steve has had his own weekly series in British magazines Match, Match of the Day and Shoot! and international publications such as Kicker in Germany and Tembah in Qatar. His preview and wallchart packages on the World Cup, the Euros and other such tournaments have appeared in newspapers in more than 100 countries since 1982.
As a story artist, Steve worked on some of the most successful movies in animation history, including “Despicable Me 2,” “The Minions,” and “The Secret Life of Pets.” He is the author of over a dozen books, including two collections of his “Badlands” comic strip, eight titles in his “Trivquiz” series, and a biography of Sean Connery.
Manchester born and bred, Steve has been based in California since 1989. A two-term former President of the National Cartoonists Society – the world’s most prestigious organization for professional cartoonists – he later served eight years as President of the NCS Foundation, the Society’s charitable arm. Steve’s honors include Illustrator of the Year awards from the NCS and the Australian Cartoonists Association, and in 2011 he received the Silver T-Square for “outstanding service to the profession of cartooning.”