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Pat Oliphant

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The Resume

    (July 24, 1934- )
    Born in Adelaide, Australia
    Syndicated political cartoonist
    Won the Pulitzer Prize for editorial cartooning (1967)

Why he might be annoying:

    He has been married three times, divorced twice.
    He said, 'So many cartoonists draw the same year after year.... They don't mess with innovation and it becomes boring,' which seems ironic coming from a guy who has been sticking the same penguin in the corner of his cartoons for decades.
    Caricatures of his have been denounced as racist by the Asian American Journalists Association, the Arab-American Anti-Discrimination Committee and the Anti-Defamation League.

Why he might not be annoying:

    He is the most widely syndicated and influential political cartoonist in America.
    He said about being an Australian in America, 'An outsider's point of view is always helpful.'
    His work has been exhibited at the National Portrait Gallery.
    He said of George W. Bush, 'I haven't had such fun since the Nixon days.'

Credit: C. Fishel


Featured in the following Annoying Collections:

Year In Review:

    In 2023, Out of 1 Votes: 100% Annoying
    In 2022, Out of 3 Votes: 66.67% Annoying
    In 2021, Out of 8 Votes: 37.50% Annoying
    In 2020, Out of 5 Votes: 80.0% Annoying
    In 2019, Out of 3 Votes: 33.33% Annoying
    In 2018, Out of 12 Votes: 66.67% Annoying
    In 2017, Out of 4 Votes: 25.00% Annoying
    In 2016, Out of 1 Votes: 100% Annoying
    In 2015, Out of 21 Votes: 71.43% Annoying
    In 2014, Out of 15 Votes: 66.67% Annoying
    In 2013, Out of 17 Votes: 47.06% Annoying
    In 2012, Out of 11 Votes: 45.45% Annoying
    In 2011, Out of 19 Votes: 36.84% Annoying
    In 2010, Out of 37 Votes: 59.46% Annoying
    In 2009, Out of 17 Votes: 47.06% Annoying