Steve Moore is a writer, internationally syndicated cartoonist and former news executive for the Los Angeles Times. He grew up in La Canada Flintridge, California. Moore graduated from Oregon State University and completed his masters in Journalism at the University of Oregon.

 

While working as sports editor at The Maui News in Hawaii, he created the comic "In the Bleachers." Soon after, Moore moved to The Times where he worked in sports, news and features. He served as Exec. News Editor on reporting teams that won Pulitzers for breaking news in 1992 and again in 1994. Moore resigned from The Times in order to focus on the syndicated comic and to work in entertainment. "In the Bleachers," distributed by Universal Uclick, appears in hundreds of newspapers and websites worldwide. 

 

Moore currently is writing a series of four middle-school “novels with cartoons” for HarperCollins titled KING OF THE BENCH. The first book publishes March 29, 2017. Moore's humor was inspired by his father, Bob, and cartoonists Don Martin, B. Kliban, Gary Larson, Charles Addams and Gahan Wilson. He lives in Idaho with his three children --- Jakob, Lauren and Christopher.

Steve Moore