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Tony Auth, 1942-2014
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For over 40 years, Tony Auth was a glimmer of sanity amid the news of the day, in the form of his cartoons on the opinion pages of the Philadelphia Inquirer.
In 2012, Auth — a winner of the Pulitzer and Herblock Prizes — moved to the local PBS affiliate, bringing his cartoons to their NewsWorks website.
Auth's cartoons, drawn with a wonderfully sketchy line, and little pretense, carried his commentary straight to the point, often skewering left and right alike, though most would count his politics as liberal (if only because he wasn't rabidly right wing).
Auth died this month, on September 14, 2014, at the age of 72.
Tony Auth was also an illustrator of children's books. You can find a number of them, along with collections of his editorial cartoons, on Amazon.
I, for one, will miss his visual voice and that occasional breath of sanity amid the screaming and finger-pointing, particularly now.
For more, see my previous post on Tony Auth (from 2006).
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