Peter Steiner (cartoonist)
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- Cartoonist
- painter
- novelist
Peter Steiner | |
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| Born | 1940 (age 85–86) Cincinnati, Ohio, U.S. |
| Education | University of Miami (BA) Free University of Berlin University of Pittsburgh (MA, PhD) |
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| Known for | Prompting the adage "On the Internet, nobody knows you're a dog" |
| Website | www |
Peter Steiner (born 1940) is an American cartoonist, painter, and novelist, best known for a 1993 cartoon published by The New Yorker which prompted the adage "On the Internet, nobody knows you're a dog."[1][2] He is also a novelist who has published four crime novels.
Peter Steiner was born in Cincinnati, Ohio, in 1940 and raised there. His parents had emigrated from Austria in the 1930s.[3]
He attended the University of Miami and spent his junior year at the Free University of Berlin. He earned his B.A. from the University of Miami.[3] After serving in the United States Army in Germany, he earned his M.A. and Ph.D. in German literature from the University of Pittsburgh in 1967 and 1969 respectively.[4][3]
He was a professor of German literature at Dickinson College in Carlisle, Pennsylvania, for eight years before turning to being a cartoonist, artist, and a writer of novels.[5][6]
Cartoons
Steiner has contributed cartoons and other material to The New Yorker since 1979.[7]
His cartoon captioned "On the Internet, nobody knows you're a dog" is the most reproduced cartoon from The New Yorker.[1][8] Steiner is also well known for his daily cartoons on contemporary events for the Washington Times, which he created for over 20 years, starting in 1983. One selection of these cartoons, titled I Didn't Bite the Man. I Bit the Office, was published in 1994.[9] For several years in the late 1990s and early 2000s, he also made cartoons for The Weekly Standard.
