Peter Steiner (cartoonist)

Peter Steiner
Born1940 (age 83–84)
Cincinnati, Ohio, U.S.
NationalityAmerican
EducationUniversity of Miami (BA)
Free University of Berlin
University of Pittsburgh (MA, PhD)
Occupations
  • Cartoonist
  • painter
  • novelist
Known forPrompting the adage "On the Internet, nobody knows you're a dog"
Websitewww.plsteiner.com

Peter Steiner (born 1940) is an American cartoonist, painter and novelist, best known for a 1993 cartoon published by The New Yorker which prompted the adage "On the Internet, nobody knows you're a dog."[1][2] He is also a novelist who has published four crime novels.

  1. ^ Fleishman, Glenn (December 14, 2000). "Cartoon Captures Spirit of the Internet". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved April 14, 2017.
  2. ^ "On the Internet, nobody knows you're a dog". University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. August 27, 1997. Archived from the original on June 4, 2014. Retrieved April 14, 2017.