Cartoonist Tony Auth, Akron-born Pulitzer winner, dies at 72

Tony Auth, Pulitzer Prize winning editorial cartoonist for the Philadelphia Inquirer, died Sunday of brain cancer at age 72.

Auth was born in Akron, where his father was an executive for Firestone.

He won a Pulitzer Prize in 1976 – one of 84 claimed by Knight-Ridder newspapers – and was a finalist in 1983 and 2010.

Knight Newspapers, which began with C.L. Knight’s purchase of the Akron Beacon Journal in 1903, added the Philadelphia Inquirer to its newspaper group in 1969.

Read Auth’s obituaries in the Philadelphia Inquirer, Washington Post and New York Times.

Philly.com also offers a retrospective of Auth's career.