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Pat Oliphant

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So many cartoonists draw the same year after year. When they find a style, they stick with it. They don't mess with innovation, and they become boring.


— Pat Oliphant


#become #boring #cartoonists #draw #find

Some days you feel like this is really going well. You can tell. Other days, you're just drawing like a farmer and you don't know why.


— Pat Oliphant


#drawing #farmer #feel #going #just

The fact that we're protected under that Constitution in exercising the right of free speech, it's a wonderful thing. You've got to come from somewhere else to realize how valuable it is.


— Pat Oliphant


#constitution #else #exercising #fact #free

There has always been quite a strong black and white art tradition in Australia, with quite a large contingent of cartoonists, given the size of the population.


— Pat Oliphant


#art #australia #been #black #black and white

There were dragons to slay in the old days. Nixon was a good dragon.


— Pat Oliphant


#dragon #dragons #good #nixon #old

We're all idealistic when young.


— Pat Oliphant


#young






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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