Ed Stein is an award-winning political cartoonist. He worked for several Colorado-based publications before joining the staff of the Rocky Mountain News as its editorial cartoonist in 1978. His cartoons have been syndicated to publications like The New York Times, The Washington Post, the Los Angeles Times, Newsweek, USA Today, US News and World Report and People magazine.
Between 1997 and 2008, he created the local comic strip 'Denver Square' for the Denver Rocky Mountain News. He subsequently created 'Freshly Squeezed' (20 September 2010 - 19 October 2014). This newspaper comic about a family with grandparents moving in, has appeared in 65 newspapers through Universal Uclick. Stein is a former president of the Association of American Editorial Cartoonists.