PHILADELPHIA (AP) – A Pulitzer Prize-winning editorial cartoonist who worked for more than 40 years at The Philadelphia Inquirer has died. Tony Auth was 72.
Auth’s death was announced by NewsWorks/WHYY (http://bit.ly/1uCDegl), where he was the artist-in-residence.
Auth died Sunday after a two-year battle with brain cancer. According to his website, he was married with two adult children.
Auth worked at the Inquirer for 41 years starting in 1971. He a won the Pulitzer for editorial cartoons in 1976 and was a finalist twice after that.
In 2010, the Pulitzer board praised “his masterful simplicity in expressing consistently fearless positions on national and local issues.”