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Tom Toles

<strong>Read more Toles cartoons and blog posts:</strong>

<a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/news/opinions/wp/2018/11/16/mitch-mcconnell-has-his-eyes-wide-open-to-trumps-mueller-moves/">Mitch McConnell has his eyes wide open to Trump’s Mueller moves</a>

<a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/news/opinions/wp/2018/11/14/follow-the-leader-in-donald-trumps-footsteps/">Follow the leader: in Donald Trump’s footsteps</a>

<a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/news/opinions/wp/2018/11/14/republicans-find-themselves-back-with-the-same-problem-they-had-before-trump/">Republicans find themselves back with the same problem they had before Trump</a>

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

The Madhouse Effect

State University of New York at Buffalo, BA in English

Tom Toles is the Pulitzer Prize-winning editorial cartoonist for The Post and writes the Tom Toles blog. His latest book is "The Madhouse Effect," a book about climate and climate-change denial co-authored with climate scientist Michael Mann.  

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