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Meet Tony Auth
Pulitzer Prize winner Tony Auth has served as staff editorial cartoonist at The Philadelphia Inquirer since 1971. Known for his provocative observations on society's most volatile issues, he has been called "one of the greatest masters" of editorial cartooning by legendary CBS radio producer Norman Corwin. Fellow cartoonist Jules Feiffer describes him as a "bemused and often angry comic historian" who is nonetheless "a moralist and an optimist," a commentator capable of expressing both disgust and hope through his work. Auth was born in Akron, Ohio, and raised in Southern California. He began drawing at age 5 when he was bedridden for a year and a half and spent a great deal of time listening to the radio and looking at comic and children's books. He graduated from the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) in 1965 with a degree in biological illustration and worked for six years as chief medical illustrator at Rancho Los Amigos Hospital in Southern California. In 1967, while still a medical illustrator, Auth began drawing political cartoons for the UCLA Daily Bruin. In 1971 he was hired as staff editorial cartoonist by The Philadelphia Inquirer, where he now is a member of the editorial board. Auth has won numerous awards, including the Thomas Nast Prize in 2002. The Nast Prize has been awarded periodically to American and German cartoonists since 1978. In addition to the Pulitzer, he has won five Overseas Press Club Awards and the Sigma Delta Chi Award for Distinguished Service in Journalism. Auth also writes and illustrates children's books, including "The Sky of Now," by Chaim Potok, published by Alfred A. Knopf.
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