Andy Donato was born in Scarborough in 1937. He graduated from Danforth Technical School in 1955 and began working at Eaton’s as a layout artist. He left Eaton’s in 1959 to join a small art studio and, after a year, decided to freelance. He later joined the Toronto Telegram.

He won a National Newspaper Award in 1976 for editorial cartooning (he has been nominated twice since) and, in 1980, won Best Editorial Cartoon in the World from the Montreal Salon of Cartoons (a world-wide competition). Andy won the Metropolitan Toronto Police Annual News Award for Cartooning in 1993 & 97. He is a past president (1985) of the Association of American Editorial Cartoonists, and is President of the Association of Canadian Editorial Cartoonists for 2000-2001.

Since 1971, as well as being the editorial cartoonist for the Toronto Sun
Publishing Corporation, he was the Art Director. In March, 1993, he was
appointed Corporate Art Director, but took early retirement in 1996. He is
still the main cartoonist for the Sun, but on a freelance basis. The Sun’s
head office is located in Toronto, Ontario, Canada.

He graduated from Danforth Technical School in 1955 and began working at Eaton’s as a layout artist.

ONE-MAN EXHIBITIONS OF PAINTINGS
1969 Kar Gallery, Toronto
1970 Kar Gallery, Toronto
1971 Kar Gallery, Toronto
1971 Beckett Gallery, Hamilton
1972 Kar Gallery, Toronto
1973 Kar Gallery, Toronto
1974 Madden Gallery, London, England
1974 Madden Gallery, Johannesburg, South Africa
1975 Kahan Esikoff Gallery, New York
1977 Peel Museum and Art Gallery, Brampton
1977 Kar Gallery, Toronto
1978 Wayne Gallery, Windsor
1979 Kar Gallery, Toronto
1981 McDowal Gallery, Toronto
1983 McDowal Gallery, Toronto
1984 Latcham Gallery, Stouffville, Ontario
1986 Carrier Gallery - Columbus Centre, Toronto
1988 Carrier Gallery - Columbus Centre, Toronto
1991 The Toronto Hunt
1994 Donato Jackson Gallery, Toronto
1997 Studio Show, Toronto
2003 Carrier Gallery - Columbus Centre, Toronto
2006 Kipling Gallery, Vaughan, Ontario

ANDY’S POLITICAL CARTOON BOOKS
1979 Donato’s Collection of Political Cartoons (Virgo Press)
1980 Donato’s 1980 Political Cartoons (The Toronto Sun)
1981 Donato’s 1981 Political Cartoons (The Toronto Sun)
1983 From There To Here (Key Porter Books)
1986 Chins and Needles (Key Porter Books)
1987 The Strife of Brian Political Cartoons (Key Porter Books)
1988 Gucci Blues (Key Porter Books)
1990 Son Of A Meech (Key Porter Books)
1991 Duds ‘N’ Scuds (Key Porter Books)
1993 The Neverending Tory (Key Porter Books)
2004 The Little Book of Canadian Political Wisdom