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14 Facts About Tom Toles

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Thomas Gregory Toles was born on October 22,1951 and is a retired American political cartoonist.

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Tom Toles is the winner of the 1990 Pulitzer Prize for editorial cartooning.

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Similar to Oliphant's use of his character Punk, Tom Toles tended to include a small doodle, usually a small caricature of himself at his desk, in the margin of his strip.

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Tom Toles wrote for The Buffalo Courier-Express, The Buffalo News and The Washington Post.

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Tom Toles left The Buffalo News in 2002, accepting an offer from The Washington Post to replace their cartoonist Herblock, and is under contract by Universal Press Syndicate.

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Tom Toles was replaced at the Buffalo News by Adam Zyglis.

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Tom Toles' cartoons appeared in more than 200 newspapers throughout the country.

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Tom Toles received the National Cartoonist Society Editorial Cartoon Award for 2003 and the Herblock Prize for 2011.

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On October 30,2020, Tom Toles retired from political cartooning after serving 18 years as a Washington Post political cartoonist.

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Tom Toles married Gretchen Saarnijoki in 1973; together they have two children, Amanda and Seth.

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The band debuted May 30,2008 at The Red and the Black in Northeast DC Tom Toles endorsed Democratic candidate Hillary Clinton in the run-up for the 2016 US presidential election.

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Tom Toles was awarded the Pulitzer Prize in editorial cartooning in 1990.

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Tom Toles was one of two finalists for the prize in 1985, and was one of three finalists for the prize in 1996.

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In March 2010, Tom Toles appeared in the twelfth episode of The Real World: Washington, DC, in which cast member Andrew Woods, an aspiring cartoonist, met with him at The Washington Post to seek career advice.