THE ‘RIFFS INTERVIEW

TONY AUTH wants to be clear about one thing:

He is not being forced out of the Philadelphia Inquirer.

Auth, the Pulitzer-winning political cartoonist who has been at the Inquirer since 1971, tells Comic Riffs today that he is stepping down from his four-decade perch to pursue new and invigorating forms of cartooning. Auth — also a Pulitzer finalist in 2010 — feels it’s the right time to take the buyout offer from the paper, which reportedly is looking to cut about three-dozen jobs.

Read the full interview at the Washington Post


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