Pat Oliphant
Pat Oliphant
Patrick Bruce "Pat" Oliphantis an Australian 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"...
NationalityAustralian
ProfessionCartoonist
Date of Birth24 July 1935
CountryAustralia
editors facts readership
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.
constitution exercising fact protected somewhere valuable wonderful
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.
hate taken administration
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.
views outsiders point-of-view
An outsider's point of view is always handy.
done students always-learning
I can always see what I've done wrong. I'm always learning. I'm the perennial student.
noble journalism knows
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.
years innovation style
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.
australia today visiting
Even if you go to Australia today, it's very much like visiting a state you haven't been to.
thinking cartoon dozen
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.
artist cartoon happens
I see myself as an artist who happens to do cartoons.
people boring boring-things
I've always looked upon politics as a very boring thing. Politics never interested me as much as the people involved in it.
trying
I've been in Washington ever since 1981, trying to get out!
years people towns
One-newspaper towns are not good because all the surviving newspaper does is print money. They make 25 percent on their money every year, and if they go down to 22 percent, they start laying people off.
art strong black-and-white
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.