Tony Auth of The Philadelphia Inquirer
For the second year in a row, Tony Auth of The Philadelphia Inquirer has won the top OPC award for cartooning. The honor includes a $250 gift from the New York Daily News and the National Cartoonist Society. The 33-year old artist, who says he’s been drawing since age five, started as a medical illustrator after graduating from UCLA in 1965. Two years later he switched from drawing intestines to dissecting politics in a weekly cartoon for the anti war underground paper “Open City.” UCLA’s college paper picked up his work and five years ago he joined the Inquirer. His nationally distributed cartoons appear five times a week.
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Douglas Marlette of The Charlotte Observer