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Steve McGarry is one of the most prolific and widely-published cartoonists and illustrators that Britain has ever produced. In the UK alone, his daily strips include “Badlands,” which ran for a dozen years in The Sun, “The Diary of Rock & Pop” in The Daily Star, “Pop Culture” in Today and “World Soccer Diary” in The Sun. Over his five-decade career he has regularly graced the pages of soccer magazines Match, Match of the Day and Shoot! and his comics work ranges from Romeo in the 1970s and Look-In in the 1980s, through to Viz and MAD magazine.
His sports features have been syndicated worldwide since 1982 and his two current comic strips - “Biographic” and “Kid Town” - are syndicated to more than 200 newspapers, including The New York Daily News, Boston Herald, Washington Post and papers as far flung as the South China Morning Post and Kuala Lampur New Straits Times.
At the outset of his career he worked extensively in the music business, designing 18 record sleeves in a two-year period in the late 1970s. The record sleeve he designed for Joy Division subsequently went on display at The Museum of Modern Art in New York.
As a story artist, he worked on movies including “Despicable Me 2,” “The Minions,” and “The Secret Life of Pets,” as well as the “Minions Paradise” game from EA Games.
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 he is a recipient of the Silver T-Square for “outstanding service to the profession of cartooning."
