Crime Comics Confidential

Steven Brower is an award winning graphic designer and writer. His work appears regularly in international and national design annuals and books on design, and he writes for several publications. During his tenure as Creative Director, Print garnered two National Magazine Awards for General Excellent and Gold and Silver from SPD. His book Woody Guthrie Artworks won top prizes both in the Foreword Awards and the New York Book Show. His work has been honored by AIGA, ADC Global, The American Center for Design, the Brno Biennale, the Martin Biennale, and The Type Directors Club among others. In 2006 he designed and co-authored 2D: Visual Basics for Designers with Robin Landa and Rose Gonnella (Cengage). He has been an art director at the New York Times and The Nation, and his work is in the permanent collection of the Smithsonian Institute. Satchmo: The Wonderful Art and World of Louis Armstrong was published in 2009 by Abrams. In 2011 two books he designed and authored were published: From Shadow to Light: The Life and Art of Mort Meskin (Fantagraphics), and Breathless Homicidal Slime Mutants: The Art of the Paperpack (Universe/ Rizzoli) to rave reviews and in 2016 he authored and designed Inside Art Direction: Caste Study and Interviews (Bloomsbury) and designed and co-authored, with Mercedes Ellington, Duke Ellington: An American Composer and Icon (Rizzoli). He is the director of the Get Your Masters with the Masters MFA program at Marywood University in Scranton, Pennsylvania.