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Pat Oliphant

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I see myself as an artist who happens to do cartoons.


— Pat Oliphant


#cartoons #happens #i #i see #myself

An outsider's point of view is always handy.


— Pat Oliphant


#handy #outsider #point #point of view #view

Even if you go to Australia today, it's very much like visiting a state you haven't been to.


— Pat Oliphant


#been #even #go #haven #like

I can always see what I've done wrong. I'm always learning. I'm the perennial student.


— Pat Oliphant


#done #i #i can #learning #perennial

I don't think there's more than half-a-dozen cartoons that I've been really truly happy with in all the time I've been doing it.


— Pat Oliphant


#cartoons #doing #happy #i #more

I hate changes of administrations, because I have all my villains in place and they are all taken away and replaced with faceless wonders nobody knows.


— Pat Oliphant


#because #changes #faceless #hate #i

I've always looked upon politics as a very boring thing. Politics never interested me as much as the people involved in it.


— Pat Oliphant


#boring #boring thing #i #interested #involved

I've been in Washington ever since 1981, trying to get out!


— Pat Oliphant


#ever #get #i #out #since

If it were not for the fact that editors have become so timorous in these politically correct times, I would probably have a greater readership than I have.


— Pat Oliphant


#correct #editors #fact #greater #i

Journalism was looked upon as a more noble thing than it is now. I don't know if it carries the same cachet that it did then.


— Pat Oliphant


#did #i #journalism #know #looked






About Pat Oliphant






Did you know about Pat Oliphant?

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Oliphant's career which spans more than fifty years began in 1952 as a copy boy with the Adelaide News. His trademark is a small penguin character named Punk who is often seen making a comment about the subject of the panel.

In addition to winning the Pulitzer Prize Oliphant won the National Cartoonist Society Editorial Cartoon Award seven times in 1971 1973 1974 1984 1989 1990 and 1991 the Reuben Award in 1968 and 1972 and the Thomas Nast Prize in 1992. 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. Oliphant's work has appeared in several exhibitions most notably at the National Portrait Gallery.

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