- Born
- Died
- Birth nameWilliam Anthony Auth Jr.
- Tony Auth was born on May 7, 1942 in Akron, Ohio, USA. He was married to Eliza Drake. He died on September 14, 2014 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA.
- SpouseEliza Drake(1982 - September 14, 2014) (his death, 2 children)
- Editorial Cartoonist.
- At age 5, he developed rheumatic fever, and learned to draw while recovering in a hospital. He finished high school in Southern California, and graduated from UCLA in 1965.
- While working as a medical illustrator, he drew political cartoons for an alternative weekly. He joined the Philadelphia Inquirer in 1971, and left in 2012 after a change of ownership. He drew five cartoons a week for the Inquirer, and his work was widely syndicated to newspapers around the world. He won a Pulitzer Prize in 1976.
- He illustrated 11 children's books by Daniel Pinkwater, Chaim Potok, and other writers.
- Our job is not to amuse our readers. Our mission is to stir them, inform and inflame them. Our task is to continually hold up our government and our leaders to clear-eyed analysis, unaffected by professional spin-meisters and agenda-pushers. [remarks upon winning the 2005 Herblock Prize for editorial cartooning]
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