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Thomas Gregory Toles (born October 22, 1951) is an American political cartoonist. He is the winner of the 1990 Pulitzer Prize for editorial cartooning. His cartoons typically present progressive viewpoints. Similar to Oliphant's use of his character Punk, Toles also tends to include a small doodle, usually a small caricature of himself at his desk, in the margin of his strip. Toles wrote for ''The Buffalo Courier-Express'', ''The Buffalo News'' and ''The Washington Post''. He left ''The Buffalo News'' in 2002, accepting an offer from ''The Washington Post''〔(Kurtz, Howard. "Cartoonist Tom Toles Hired by Post; Veteran of Buffalo News Won Pulitzer Prize in '90, Is Syndicated in 200 Papers" ProQuest Archiver; April 10, 2002 )〕 to replace Herblock, their late, legendary cartoonist, and is under contract by Universal Press Syndicate. Part of his acceptance of his new job required him to give up his United Feature-distributed daily and Sunday cartoon panel ''Randolph Itch 2 AM'', a cartoon based on Toles' thoughts while battling insomnia. Toles was replaced at the ''Buffalo News'' by Adam Zyglis. In addition to ''Randolph Itch 2 AM'', Toles also created a daily and Sunday comic strip about small children called ''Curious Avenue''. It ran 1992-1994 through his future editorial cartooning syndicate, Universal Press Syndicate. A collection of the strip was published in 1983 through the publisher Andrews McMeel Publishing.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url = http://strippersguide.blogspot.com/2012/01/obscurity-of-day-curious-avenue.html )〕 Toles' cartoons appear in more than 200 newspapers throughout the country. He received the National Cartoonist Society Editorial Cartoon Award for 2003 and the Herblock Prize for 2011. ==Personal life== Toles graduated magna cum laude from the University at Buffalo, The State University of New York.〔("#450 University at Buffalo, SUNY" ). Forbes. Retrieved on February 17, 2012.〕〔 He married Gretchen Saarnijoki in 1973; together they have two children, Amanda and Seth.〔Brennan, Elizabeth A.; Clarage, Elizabeth C. (1999) (''Who's who of Pulitzer Prize winners'' ). Phoenix, Ariz.: Oryx Press, p. 158. ISBN 1-57356-111-8〕 In 2008, Toles began performing with the rock band Suspicious Package at venues around Washington, D.C. The band consists of Toles on drums, HUD senior official Bryan Greene on guitar, Josh Meyer of the L.A. Times on lead guitar, Tim Burger of Bloomberg News on bass, and Office of the U.S. Trade Representative senior official Christina Sevilla on keyboard. The band debuted May 30, 2008 at The Red and the Black in Northeast D.C. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Tom Toles」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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