January 24, 2013
By Tony Auth
The last time women in combat was an issue, many people were appalled. I did a drawing satirizing the unwillingness of people to send "the flower of our maidenhood off to be shot at, maimed, raped and killed. Hell no! Send the boys!"
No such problem this time around. That's equality for you.
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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