Steve McGarry (born 24 January 1953, Lambiek's ''Comiclopedia''. Retrieved 21 December 2018. in Wythenshawe, Manchester, U.K)"TEN THINGS YOU NEVER KNEW ABOUT STEVE MCGARRY," Steve McGarry website. Retrieved 21 December 2018. is a British cartoonist whose work includes the comic strips '' Badlands'', ''Pop Culture / Biographic'', '' Trivquiz'', '' KidTown'', and '' Mullets''.
His sports features are syndicated worldwide, and his client list has included most major
soccer
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McGarry's Western strip ''Badlands'' debuted in the short-lived British tabloid '' The Post'' in 1988, and then ran for 13 years in the British tabloid '' The Sun''.
McGarry took over the weekly illustrated biography feature ''Biography'' (distributed by United Feature Syndicate) in 1989; it ran until 1991. He produced a similar strip, called ''Pop Culture'', in the British newspaper '' Today'' from 1993 to 1996. In 2005 he launched the weekly feature '' Biographic'', syndicated by Universal Press Syndicate/Universal Uclick/ Andrews McMeel Syndication ever since.
With illustrator
Rick Stromoski
Rick Stromoski (born December 25, 1958) Lambiek's ''Comiclopedia''. Accessed Dec. 22, 2018. is an American , McGarry created the comic strip '' Mullets'', syndicated by Universal Press Syndicate, which ran a little over a year, from 2003 to 2005.
McGarry started ''KidCity'' in 2001 for United Feature Syndicate. Now with Andrews McMeel Syndication and known as ''KidTown'', the weekly feature teaches kids how to read a newspaper using trivia and puzzle features.
Exhibitions and NCSFest
In 2004, The Gallery at Art Institute of California, Orange County, stage a three-month retrospective exhibition of his work, ''“Steve McGarry: A Survey of Cartoons and Illustrations”''.
In 2014, the record sleeve that McGarry designed for the 1978 Joy Division EP '' An Ideal for Living'' went on display at the Museum of Modern Art in New York.
In 2018, he designed and curated an exhibition tracing the history of
soccer
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comics, cartoons, and illustration around the world. ''"Playing For A Draw"'' debuted at the National Football Museum in Manchester, where it ran for three months before transferring to The Brewery Arts Centre in
Kendal
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as part of the 2018 Lakes International Comic Arts Festival. In May 2019, the exhibition was staged at the Huntington Beach Art Center in Huntington, Beach, California, as part of the inaugural NCSFest.
McGarry is the founder and Director of NCSFest. The inaugural event was staged in Huntington Beach, 17–19 May 2019 and featured more than 100 internationally acclaimed cartoonists and comics creators, family zones, a marketplace, seminars, workshops and four international art exhibitions.
Memberships and awards
McGarry has been based in California since 1989. A two-term President of the
National Cartoonists Society
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, he has been nominated six times for National Cartoonist Society Illustration awards, and received the
National Cartoonist Society
The National Cartoonists Society (NCS) is an organization of professional cartoonists in the United States. It presents the National Cartoonists Society Awards. The Society was born in 1946 when groups of cartoonists got together to entertain the ...
Newspaper Illustration Award in 2003, the same year he was named Illustrator of the Year by the
Australian Cartoonists' Association
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It soon became The Black and White Artists Society; and, b ...
. 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
The National Cartoonists Society (NCS) is an organization of professional cartoonists in the United States. It presents the National Cartoonists Society Awards. The Society was born in 1946 when groups of cartoonists got together to entertain the ...
, a position he held for two four-year terms.
Personal life
His twin sons, Joe and
Luke McGarry
Luke Edward McGarry (born 11 October 1987) is a British illustrator, cartoonist, animator and designer based in Los Angeles.
Early career
In 2005, while they were still students at the Orange County High School of the Arts, Luke and his broth ...
, form the indie music duo
Pop Noir
Pop Noir is a Los Angeles-based indie dance-rock duo formed by British-born twin brothers Joe and Luke McGarry in 2004, while they were 16-year-old students at the Orange County High School of the Arts. The band began to build a following in th ...
. Under the name Fantastic Heat Brothers, they are also award-winning artists, designers and animators in their own right. Much of their output is centered around Luke McGarry's cartoon artwork.