Steve McGarry

Steve McGarry is a British cartoonist whose work includes the comic strips Badlands, Pop Culture, Biographic, Trivquiz, Kid Town and Mullets. His sports features are syndicated worldwide and his client list has included most major soccer magazines, including Shoot (football magazine), Match (magazine), Match of the Day, Match (magazine) and kicker Sportmagazin. As a story artist, he worked on the movies Despicable Me 2, Minions (film), The Secret Life of Pets, and on the Electronic Arts mobile game Minions Paradise.

A former record sleeve designer, whose credits include sleeve designs for Joy Division, Slaughter & The Dogs, Jilted John and John Cooper Clarke, he has been based in California since 1989. A two-term President of the National Cartoonists Society, he has been nominated six times for National Cartoonist Society Illustration awards, and received the National Cartoonist Society Newspaper Illustration Award in 2003, the same year he was named Illustrator of the Year by the Australian Cartoonists' Association. In 2012, he was awarded the Silver T-Square Award by the NCS for "outstanding service to the profession" and in 2013, became President of the NCS Foundation, the charitable arm of the National Cartoonist Society.

His twin sons, Joe and Luke McGarry, form the indie music duo Pop Noir.


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