Four Turbulent Decades
"Sitting in his office at the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, editorial cartoonist Tom Engelhardt often smiled to himself during his thirty-five-plus-year career. I cant believe the paper is paying me to have this much fun! he thought as he joyfully applied crayon to ink and to paper. Wiry and unassuming, Englehardt was known at the Post-Dispatch as upbeat and dedicated. He also had a reputation for integrity and fearlessness. He never swore or told dirty jokes, yet he had a wicked wit.
He [Engelhardt] loved hate mail! He understood that a meaningful cartoon engaged spectators in a dialogue of thought. That dialogue might be inspiring or contentious, but as long as it existed, the cartoon was a success."
--from the Editors Foreword