18 Facts About Tony Auth

Tony Auth's art won the cartoonist the Pulitzer Prize in 1976 and the Herblock Prize in 2005.

At age five Tony Auth was bedridden with rheumatic fever for a number of months.

At age nine, he and his family moved to Los Angeles, California where Tony Auth continued his education.

Tony Auth attended UCLA where he earned his bachelor's degree in biological illustration in 1965.

Tony Auth was married to Eliza Drake Tony Auth, who is a realist landscape and portrait painter.

Tony Auth started out doing one political cartoon a week for a weekly alternative newspaper.

Tony Auth eventually worked his way up to drawing three political cartoons a week for the UCLA Daily Bruin.

In 1971, Tony Auth was hired on as staff editorial cartoonist by The Philadelphia Inquirer.

Tony Auth's work was published by the Inquirer five days a week, reaching an additional national audience via syndication.

Tony Auth was an outspoken critic of financial corruption on Wall Street, racial bigotry and intolerance, and gun violence, driving home his points with wit and a minimalistic artistic style.

Tony Auth made use of a light table in composing his finished work, in which he attempted to mimic the rough-hewn simplicity of rapidly drawn preliminary sketches.

Tony Auth's content was acerbic and made use of irony in hammering home his political points.

In 1976 Tony Auth's work was rewarded with a Pulitzer Prize.

Tony Auth would be a finalist for the Pulitzer two more times during his four-decade career, finishing on that shortlist in 1983 and 2010.

Tony Auth won the prestigious Herblock Prize in 2005, an award given by a foundation established by the late political cartoonist Herb Block.

Tony Auth retired from his position at The Philadelphia Inquirer in 2012, taking a buyout from the paper.

Tony Auth died of brain cancer on September 14,2014.

Tony Auth was awarded an honorary doctorate in 2012 by the University of the Arts in Philadelphia.