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Meet Tom Toles

Pulitzer Prize winner Tom Toles is the editorial cartoonist for The Washington Post and syndicated by Universal Press. A native of Buffalo, N.Y., Toles graduated in 1973 from the State University of New York at Buffalo and began his career as a staff artist and caricaturist for the Buffalo Courier-Express.

Cartooning, he says, chose him as a profession when an editor at the Courier-Express encouraged him to become the paper's full-time editorial cartoonist. He moved to The Buffalo News when the Courier-Express closed in 1982 and remained there until taking the position at The Washington Post in 2002.

In October 2006, Toles was awarded The Wilderness Society’s Aldo Leopold Award for Distinguished Editorial Writing. In March 2005, Toles was named Editorial Cartoonist of the Year by "The Week," a New York City publication. Toles was also named by Editor & Publisher as the Editorial Cartoonist of the Year in 2002. He also has received the John Fischetti Award, the Free Press Association Mencken Award, and a Global Media Award for his environmental cartoons. In addition to newspapers, his cartoons regularly appear in U.S. News and World Report and have appeared in The New Republic, Amicus Journal and other national magazines. His children's book My School Is Worse Than Your School was published by Viking. He won the Pulitzer for editorial cartooning in 1990.

Toles’ work is syndicated by Universal Press Syndicate in more than 200 newspapers. He and his wife, Gretchen, have two children, Amanda and Seth.

For more information or examples of Toles’ work, please visit www.amuniversal.com/ups.