January 9, 2013
By Tony Auth
85 percent of children who die by gunfire on the planet, are killed in the United States. Our shame; the politicians' game.
Note: The statistic above is cited from an ABC News interview with Mark Kelly and Gabrielle Giffords.
After 40 years as editorial cartoonist at The Philadelphia Inquirer, where he garnered more than his share of both awards and hate mail, Tony Auth decided that the time had come to broaden the range of his commentary. There is, after all, so much more to life than politics.
What he needed was a new venue. What he found was WHYY, and NewsWorks, where he is now its first Digital Artist in Residence.
Stay tuned.
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