The Art of Tony Auth
Auth, Tony
Tony Auth's cartoons, seemingly simple and always direct, have influenced public opinion and politicians for more than 40 years. "Our job is not to amuse our readers, " says Auth of a national artistic heritage of editorial cartooning that began with Benjamin Franklin in 1754. "Our mission is to stir them, inform and inflame them." Auth was a fledgling artist from California in 1971 when The Philadelphia Inquirer flew him in for a weeklong job...