Philadelphia Inquirer - Tony Auth, 72, of Wynnewood, the Pulitzer Prize-winning cartoonist and mainstay of The Inquirer's editorial page for four decades before resigning in 2012 to become a digital artist, has died. Mr. Auth had been under treatment for brain cancer, and earlier this month was placed in hospice care, his family said. He died Sunday, just days after his friends announced a fundraising effort for an archive devoted to his work at Temple University. Mr. Auth's remarkable career began in 1971 when the fledgling artist from California flew in to Philadelphia to interview for the position of editorial cartoonist.
DC Gazette (now the Progressive Review), 1971 - The cartoon [above] is one of
the first we ran by Tony Auth. We are sorry to say that-it looks like it also going to be the last. Auth has been hired by the Philadelphia Inquirer, which should add some
daylight to the Knight chain but leaves us feeling glum.
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