Editorial cartoon for Friday, Feb. 22, 2013 from Steven DeCinzo.
Starting this week, local cartoonist Steven DeCinzo has joined the Sentinel as a regular contributor.
He was born in San Jose and raised in Saratoga.
Like most children, he loved to cartoon, he says. But unlike most children, he just never stopped.
“I have always loved political cartoons more than strip-panel cartoons,” he said. “As a teen I was amazed to see how much power they could have when done right.”
An early memory? Being in Sunday school drawing the Frankenstein monster, which at 8 years old he was quite fond of. “Sister Cathy came up behind me and literally said, ”The devil did this!” I said, ”No he didn”t! She said, ”You must not draw things that are dead and have come back to life.” I said, ”Jesus was dead and he came back to life!” That was the end of my Sunday school experience.”
He moved to Felton in 1989 and later to Santa Cruz”s harbor area, where he says he “lives with a large harbor seal named Lula.”
He loves traveling and exploring South and Central America and the Caribbean. He has a daughter who lives in Austin, Texas.
His politics? He calls himself a liberal with a serious conservative streak, a cat person who finds dogs to be all together too much like people – needy, noisy and prone to eat their own poop. He”s also a vegetarian, and, we would add, a keen political observer.
– Don Miller, Sentinel editor
