Pat Oliphant

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Biography

Australian-American political cartoonist

  • Primary profession
  • Animation_department·writer
  • Country
  • United States
  • Nationality
  • American
  • Gender
  • Male
  • Birth date
  • 24 July 1935
  • Place of birth
  • Adelaide
  • Knows language
  • English language

Movies

TV

Books

Awards

Trivia

He won the Pulitzer Prize in 1967.

He produces fine arts as well, including sketches of nudes and oils on canvas, along with sculptures in bronze.

He is a famous political cartoonist. He has been internationally syndicated since 1965.

He started out as a copy boy at a Adelaide newspaper. They noticed his talent for drawing, and made him a cartoonist. He put in 10 years there, and then got a job at the Denver Post. In 1975, he was hired away by the Washington Star, where he worked until that paper folded in 1981. He had a sufficiently prominent reputation to go independent soon afterward.

Quotes

Politics is very boring [nowadays]. The people are all the same now.

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