Steve Duffendack

Born and raised in Kansas City, Missouri, Steve is living his dream as a career artist. He spent countless childhood hours creating massively detailed scenes of dinosaurs and battling spaceships. In high school, his marker drawings expanded onto T-Shirts and skateboards. While earning a BFA in graphic design with an emphasis in illustration at the University of Missouri, Steve started his own T-shirt design company while providing editorial cartoons for the school paper. After graduation, Steve taught cartooning classes for kids and began a ten-year career at Hallmark Cards, where he provided illustrations for gift bags, events and numerous products.

During the next ten years Steve worked as Senior Illustrator/Designer for a marketing company creating activity books, toys, cups, and crayons for kids, all of which sparked his love for games, puzzles and dot-to-dots.

Steve clearly has a love of detail in creating patterns, floral design, fashion and product illustration, character development and game design. In many wonderful ways his entire life’s work has come together giving him the experience to create meaningful and eye-catching books. Steve’s immersion in playful illustration with his whimsical approach and jubilant outlook quite simply inspire joy in his many followers.

Now as a freelance artist with over 21 years experience and as an award winning illustrator and designer Steve has illustrated several coloring books for adults and with Andrews McMeel Publishing (Calvin and Hobbes, The Far Side) has created a dot-to-dot coloring book for adults while also contributing regularly to Andrews McMeel Syndication's feature, Color Me Posh.

Steve’s source of joy and energy today comes first from his family, his lovely wife Alise and their two beautiful children, Spencer and Annalisa.

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Steve Duffendack - Illustrator