The DC Fishwrap's senior editorial cartoonist, Tom Toles, has put away his pen and is movin' on. The old blogger of Sapper's (Fair & Balanced) Rant's & Raves has moved on, too... with a new mailing address. After 13 years in the same place, the old blogger has moved into a new residence in a 5-story apartment complex that is open only to age 60-or-older residents. The glassed-in walkin shower has anti-fall railings on all three solid walls in an example of age-proofing. This is the blogger's absence excuse since October 29, 2020 (moving day) and two days of unpacking and getting TV and Internet installed. So, all that is left are boxes yet to empty and an incredible amount of recyclable packing paper. And it is good to be back. If this is a (fair & balanced) account of the cycle of life in the 21st century, so be it.
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"The Liar Tweets Tonight" (Parody of "The Lion Sleeps Tonight")
By Roy Zimmerman and The ReZisters, featuring Sandy Riccardi
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Tom Toles’s Final Cartoon
By Tom Toles
Introduction By Fred Hiatt, WaPo Editorial Page Editor: As Tom Toles tells us today, he has decided to retire. After a half-century of brilliant cartooning, including 18 years at The Post, he is entitled, but we will miss him greatly, as we know will many of you. While we search for a replacement, we will offer a cartoon every day chosen from a roster of the best cartoonists in the country. You also may continue to enjoy the work of our other staff cartoonist, Ann Telnaes.
[Tom Toles is the Pulitzer Prize-winning editorial cartoonist for The Washington Post. He joined the newspaper in 2002, after 19 years as the cartoonist for the Buffalo News and nine years with the Buffalo Courier-Express. He has also produced a syndicated a comic strip, "Curious Avenue," and a syndicated panel, "Randolph Itch, 2 a.m." The Madhouse Effect, a book he co-authored on climate change, was published in 2016. His cartoons are also collected in eight books, and he is the author of a children's book, My School Is Worse Than Yours (1997). His honors and awards include:
Pulitzer Prize, Editorial Cartooning, 1990
Herblock Cartooning Prize, 2011
National Cartoonists Society, Best Editorial Cartoons, 2003
National Headliner Award, 2005
The Week Opinion Award, Best Editorial Cartoonist, 2005 and 2010
Mencken Award, Best Editorial Cartoon, 1990
National Wildlife Federation, Conservation Achievement Award, 2009
The Overseas Press Club, Thomas Nast Award, 2003
The Wilderness Society, Aldo Leopold Award for Distinguished Editorial Writing, 2006
Fischetti Cartoon Prize, 1986
National Press Club, Order of the Owl, 2015
Toles received a BA (English) from SUNY-Albany.]
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