Pat Oliphant
Cartoonist, Award Winner
1935 –
Who is Pat Oliphant?
Patrick Bruce "Pat" Oliphant is an editorial cartoonist whose career spans more than fifty years. His trademark is a small penguin character named Punk, who is often seen making a comment about the subject of the panel. In 1990, the New York Times described him as "the most influential editorial cartoonist now working".
Oliphant's career began in 1952 as a copy boy with the Adelaide News. He worked as staff cartoonist for the Adelaide Advertiser until 1964, when he moved to the United States to take up a position with The Denver Post. His strip was nationally syndicated and internationally syndicated in 1965. He won the Pulitzer Prize for Editorial Cartooning in 1967 for his 1 February 1966 cartoon They Won't Get Us To The Conference Table ... Will They?. Oliphant moved to the now defunct Washington Star for six years, until the paper folded in 1981.
Oliphant's work has appeared in several exhibitions, most notably at the National Portrait Gallery. He has also crafted a series of small sculptures based on his caricatures of various political figures, which have been displayed alongside his drawings in some exhibitions. His work is in the permanent collection of the New Mexico Museum of Art in Santa Fe.
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- Born
- Jul 24, 1935
Adelaide - Also known as
- Patrick Bruce Oliphant
- Pat
- Patrick B. Oliphant
- Nationality
- United States of America
- Australia
- Profession
- Employment
- The Washington Star
( - 1981) - Copyboy, Adelaide News
(1952 - )
- The Washington Star
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on July 23, 2013
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