A Talk With Editorial Cartoonists David Brown, Steve Greenberg & Angelo Lopez - January 26, 2025

On January 16, 2025, editorial cartoonists David Brown, Steve Greenberg and Angelo Lopez had a talk on the recent Palisades fire, their responses to a Trump second term, and their worries on how a Trump presidency may affect the African American and the Jewish communities.
Steve Greenberg is an editorial cartoonist and artist in Tempe, Arizona, recently relocated from L.A. He contributes regularly for Crooksandliars.com and to the Arizona Daily Star in Tucson, and has contributed to the Cartoon Movement out of The Netherlands (the first American cartoonist invited to join), the Columbus Free Press, SF Weekly (San Francisco), Sacramento Bee and Ventura County Reporter. He is also an award-winning infographics artist and illustrator.
His career has included being on staff with the Ventura County Star, Los Angeles Times Community News, Outlook Newspapers (Calif.), San Francisco Chronicle, San Francisco Examiner, Seattle Post-Intelligencer, Marin Independent Journal and the Daily News of Los Angeles, and was the weekly cartoonist for Editor & Publisher magazine from 1995-98. His editorial cartoons have won awards most years of his career.
He also draws a monthly self-syndicated comic strip for “50-and-older” publications called "Doing Grayt" (begun in 2011 as “Boomerish”) and does oil painting and figure drawing as a change of pace from cartooning. Other credits have included a bit of drawing and writing for Mad and Disney comic books, drawing the opening titles for a short-lived ABC-TV series in 1985, and doing editorial cartoons for the Jewish press.
You can see more of Steve's work at www.greenberg-...
David G. Brown is an award-winning artist, educator and publisher. He produces political cartoons, graphic novels and comic books with positive messages for young people. Brown is a former CTE instructor of Arts, Media and Entertainment for the Los Angeles Unified School District and taught Cartooning for the California Institute of the Arts.
Brown is the political cartoonist for the Los Angeles Sentinel and featured contributor to the Washington Post and the San Francisco Bay View newspapers. He has been awarded multiple prestigious Merit Awards for "Best Editorial Cartoon" by the National Newspapers Publishers Association (NNPA). Pelican Publishing Company Inc. featured his work in their 2005 thru 2014 editions of the “Best Editorial Cartoons of the Year.” His book, "Barack, Race and the Media: Drawing my own Conclusions" was awarded a NAACP Image award in 2009. The book is a collection of satirical cartoons highlighting the historical Presidential run of Senator Barack Obama and other significant events affecting Americans.
You can see David's work at www.davidgbrow...
From 2011 to 2023, Angelo Lopez was the regular cartoonist for the Philippine News Today, a Filipino American community newspaper based in the San Francisco Bay Area.
Angelo’s cartoons are currently in the Cartoon Movement, Cartooning for Peace and Pitik Bulag.
Angelo Lopez won the 2016 Robert F. Kennedy Book and Journalism Award for Editorial Cartoons. He has also won the 2013, 2015, 2016 and 2018 Sigma Delta Chi award for editorial cartooning for newspapers with a circulation under 100,000.
Here is Angelo's cartoons for the Cartoon Movement www.cartoonmov...
Here is Angelo's Instagram page / angelolopezart
Chapters:
4:45 Since David and Steve are current and former residents of Los Angeles, how did the Palisades fires affect both them and the Los Angeles community?
11:34 What are David and Steve's initial thoughts on Donald Trump's first week as President? What are their biggest worries about a second Trump term?
17:31 David, Steve and Angelo focus their cartoons on the African American, the Jewish and the Filipino American communities. What is the difference between doing cartoons for a specific community as opposed to a more general readership? What are some special responsibilities of doing editorial cartoons to a specific community?
25:32 With Benjamin Netanyahu governing Israel and Donald Trump governing the U.S., how difficult is it for Steve Greenberg to be a liberal Jewish editorial cartoonist?
36:51 During the last elections, a large number of working class Black and Latino voters went for Trump. Does David have any explanation as to why these voters went from Trump?
55:28 Does David and Steve have any hope that we can bridge some of these political divides?
1:02:31 With the decline in newspapers, how does David and Steve think editorial cartoons will evolve in the future?
1:09:09 Why are editorial cartoons still important?