14 Facts About Tom Toles

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

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

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.

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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.