If you read Mike Peters’s touching tribute to the late Tony Auth, you know they had a deep friendship. Late last week, Mike posted a two part interview he did with Tony for the program “The World of Cartooning.” Part 1 Part 2
Surfing around the web today, it’s hard not to see some tribute to the Tony Auth who passed away on Sunday. There was a remarkable friendship forged between Mike Peters, Tony and the late cartoonists Jeff MacNelly and Doug Marlette. Some of their capers are documented in Doug’s book In Your Face: A Cartoonist at […]
The Association of American Editorial Cartoonists has released the following statement regarding the loss of the much loved Tony Auth. Tony Auth?s colleagues and friends in the Association of American Editorial Cartoonists are profoundly saddened by his death. Tony was one of a small handful of that magnificent generation of 1960s and 1970s cartoonists who […]
I’ve known about Tony Auth for years now, but his work never ran in the papers I subscribed to so aside from a few that make the news, I haven’t had the opportunity to explore his work. Camino Books, out of Philadelphia, has published a book “The Art of Tony Auth: To Stir, Inform and […]
The Philadelphia Inquirer editorial cartoonist Tony Auth said good bye to his readers yesterday after 40 years with the paper. Creed Black, my editor, was a moderate Republican. He’d not be welcome in today’s Republican Party, but that was a long time ago, in what seems like a far away galaxy. Creed would never tell […]