From the archives: Pat Oliphant and the artwork of political cartoons From the archives: Pat Oliphant and the artwork of political cartoons

From the archives: Pat Oliphant and the artwork of political cartoons

Pulitzer Prize-winning cartoonist Pat Oliphant, whose acidic drawings skewering political figures had been syndicated in as many as 500 publications world wide, died on July 13, 2026 at age 90. On this April 16, 2000 “Sunday Morning” story, Oliphant talked with Morley Safer about caricature, censorship, and the affect of the primary nice political cartoonist, nineteenth century French grasp Honoré Daumier, whose grotesque drawings of King Louis Philippe led to a curtailment of press freedom in France in 1835.

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