H.U. Steger

H.U. Steger was born in 1923 in Zurich. He studied at the Zurich School of Applied Arts, where he later worked as a teacher for 20 years. His first cartoon was published in ›Nebelspalter‹. Since 1945 he has published a weekly cartoon about global or local events under the name of ›H. U. St.‹ in the ›Weltwoche‹, the ›Zürcher-Woche‹ and in the Zurich-based ›Tages-Anzeiger‹. Alongside his career as a cartoonist, Steger is also an author of children’s books, a painter, an off-the-wall artist and a collector of just about everything.