Glenn "Marty" Stein Collection of Cartoon Art

Glenn Martin Stein was born in Miami, Florida on October 4, 1962. When he was 5 years old, he moved from Miami to Satellite Beach, on the barrier island off the coast of Florida. He attended Ocean Breeze Elementary (Indian Harbour Beach) where he started drawing cartoons and comic books. He mainly derived his artistic ability from both parents, though it was his father who had particular talent, and he patiently spent many hours showing him how to draw any number of living and non-living subjects. His mother was very encouraging, in part because the time he spent drawing sapped from of his considerable over-abundance of energy. She would buy rolls of wide wax paper that he could sprawl over the dining room table and draw on the unwaxed side.

After graduating from high school, he attended University of Florida where he became a midshipman in the Navy ROTC program. Due to an eye injury he had at the age of 14, he was forced to leave the program after only six months. He continued to study at the University of Florida and earned a bachelor's degree in Public Relations and minor in History. In 1983, after taking a basic Spanish course, he spent six weeks as a foreign exchange student, studying Spanish at the Universidad de Los Andes (Bogotá, Colombia), and living with a Colombian family. By the end of his Colombian studies, he was just beginning to think in Spanish. Around this time, he was drawn toward editorial cartoons, and successfully approached the student newspaper, The Independent Florida Alligator, about submissions. His first cartoon is the only one that survives from this period; the rough draft, finished cartoon and tear sheet are part of the collection. Getting some cartoons printed made him realize how much he enjoyed editorial cartooning and decided this would be his focus for the future. After graduating in spring of 1985, he turned to The Gainesville Sun and published his first cartoon. He was always seeking freelance cartooning; designed a letterhead featuring a cartoon head and a business card in 1999. In 1987, he began self-publishing "A Weekly Editorial Cartoon Statement" he called American Punch, and left issues at newsstands around town. The name was taken from the long running British humor and satire magazine Punch that had been around since 1841.

Seeking out the gag cartoon market, he began sending cartoons to The New Yorker, which he continued doing off and on in the years that followed. The late 1980s and 1990s he became keen about creating comic strips and created three main strips; Doppelgängers (1987), HIJINX (1988), and Dr. Roget (1991). Since Glenn was living near the ocean, he got into the sport of wave skiing in 1988. He introduced Mr. T-Bones to Surf Ski Quarterly magazine and his episodes were published four times a year. Later, T-Bones became Mr. Tibs and went through five episodes, with artwork for a sixth episode (no. 11) being produced, but never published, due to the cancellation of the strip on June 1993. During two different period of time, Glenn drew editorial cartoons and illustrations for the Orlando Business Journal. Firstly from December 1990 until April 1991, and then from November 1998 through February 1999. Glenn was asked to generate cartoons generally relate the subjects to business and industry. After contributing cartoons to The Apopka Chief from February 1999 to March 2000, Glenn moved to Spanish-language weekly La Prensa (Central Florida), a family-run publication that had been in print for nearly 20 years. His first cartoon appeared in La Prensa on February 3, 2000.

In October 1999, only a few months before joining La Prensa, Glenn was invited to a Florida Chapter meeting of the National Cartoonist Society (NCS) by cartoonist Dana Summers (The Orlando Sentinel) and became member of the NCS in May 2000, his membership was confirmed on a Certificate of Membership dated January 1, 2003. Membership to the American Association of Editorial Cartoonists (AAEC) was in 2001, and he received a certificate on September 13, 2003. In January 2000, Glenn wanted to revive the Doppelgängers strip and he changed the name to El Oasis. Glenn submitted El Oasis to FineToon Fellowship competition in 2004. However, it was eliminated in one of the final rounds in the pool of 400 submissions for FineToon/2004.

After a few months, La Prensa ceased publishing El Oasis due to space and financial reasons. Afterwards, Glenn tightened the cap on his ink bottle and scrubbed his pen and brush for the last time. Since 2006, Glenn had begun focusing more and more on Arctic/Antarctic and maritime research and writing, and laying the groundwork for short and long term projects.