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Pat Oliphant, prizewinning giant of political cartooning, dies at 90
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When Pat Oliphant assembled his entry for the 1967 Pulitzer Prize for editorial cartooning, he included a dozen cartoons he had drawn for the Denver Post: 11 he was proud of, and one he didn’t think was any good but was targeted to appeal to the jury’s politics. Democracy Dies in Darkness Pat Oliphant, prizewinning giant of political cartooning, dies at 90 The Pulitzer Prize-winning cartoonist skewered presidents from Johnson to Trump, reaching a vast audience through syndication.
When Pat Oliphant assembled his entry for the 1967 Pulitzer Prize for editorial cartooning, he included a dozen cartoons he had drawn for the Denver Post: 11 he was proud of, and one he didn’t think was any good but was targeted to appeal to the jury’s politics.
Democracy Dies in Darkness
Pat Oliphant, prizewinning giant of political cartooning, dies at 90
The Pulitzer Prize-winning cartoonist skewered presidents from Johnson to Trump, reaching a vast audience through syndication.