Memorial service set for cartoonist Tony Auth

A memorial service has been scheduled for Tony Auth, The Inquirer's Pulitzer Prize-winning cartoonist, who died Sept. 14 at age 72.

The memorial will be held from 2 to 4 p.m. Sunday, Sept. 28, at the Independence Seaport Museum, 211 S. Columbus Blvd.

His wife, Eliza Drake Auth, said the event will be free and open to the public. WHYY-FM (90.9) plans to broadcast the memorial.

Mr. Auth worked as an editorial cartoonist at The Inquirer for 41 years before joining WHYY's newsworks.org in 2012 as a digital artist.

At The Inquirer, he won the paper's second Pulitzer Prize in 1976, and was a finalist for a Pulitzer in 2010. He produced five editorial cartoons a week for years, and authored 11 children's books and two anthologies of cartoon drawings.