# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/tony-auth
# Generated: 2026-08-13T00:43:36.079Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/tony-auth"
name: "Tony Auth"
slug: "tony-auth"
description: "William Anthony Auth Jr. was an American editorial cartoonist and children's book illustrator. Auth is best known for his syndicated work originally drawn for The Philadelphia Inquirer, for whom he worked from 1971 to 2012. Auth's art won the cartoonist the Pulitzer Prize in 1976 and the Herblock Prize in 2005."
tagline: "American cartoonist (1942-2014)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Tony_Auth%2C_cartoonist%2C_working_in_front_of_sketches_of_his_cartoons.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Journalists"
  slug: "journalists"
profileType:
  name: "Journalist"
  slug: "journalist"
birthDate: "1942-05-07"
deathDate: "2014-09-14"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           38.19
  momentum:             3.461538461538462
  historical:           4.4045
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     35
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "RISING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm2393853/"
    handle:    "nm2393853"
sources:
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AA%D9%88%D9%86%D9%89_%D8%A7%D9%88%D8%AB"
    title: "تونى اوث"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tony_Auth"
    title: "Tony Auth"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tony_Auth"
    title: "Tony Auth"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tony_Auth"
    title: "Tony Auth"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://cs.wikiquote.org/wiki/Tony_Auth"
    title: "Wikiquote"
    type:  "WEBSITE"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q7821790"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump