Ed Steckley

Ed Steckley is an award winning humorous illustrator living in Racine, WI.

Starting in live caricature in theme parks, Steckley's career grew out of comic books and magazine illustration, eventually finding its way to advertising and now children’s books. He’s the illustrator of two different STEM/STEAM series as well as an all new ('new' by late 2024's standards, anyway!) kids activity book, all based in the world of Rube Goldberg and Rube Goldberg Machines.

The first series contains two picture books thus far, focused around a young Rube Goldberg, a little boy who creates crazy machines and contraptions to help him get through his day. The other is a 3 book Middle Reader series written by Brandon T. Snider, which follows an older Rube as he navigates middle school while simultaneously embracing his love of science, engineering and machine building. Both are published by Abrams/Amulet.

The activity book, Rube Goldberg's Big Book of Building, was released November 2024, and quickly rose to the top of a number of Amazon ranking lists, including #1 spots in 'Children's books on Inventions and Inventors, and 'Children's How Things Work Books'.

In addition, his work has appeared in numerous publications, most notably Mad magazine.