Pat Oliphant, Cartoonist, Dies at 90

[Liberal In Texas]

Another one of our greats has departed:

Mr. Oliphant, who owned and flew a small plane and cultivated a garden in Santa Fe for his vegetarian tastes, retired from cartooning in 2015. But a year later, Donald J. Trump, who had made disparaging remarks about Muslims and Mexicans and boasted of sexual conquests, was elected president.

Mr. Oliphant came out of retirement to express his visceral feelings about Mr. Trump for The Nib, a cartoon website. In one cartoon, he portrayed the president as a member of the Hitler Youth, with jackboots and a swastika armband, admiring himself in a pier glass as a ghoulish Steve Bannon salutes his führer.

“How do I look, Herr Bannon?”

“Exquisite as usual, Herr Trump,” the toady says.

“Heil Trump!” says a little piggy.
from: https://www.nytimes.com/2026/07/13/arts/pat-oliphant-dead.html?unlocked_article_code=1.xlA.Wy82.xHnuGq85feGI&smid=url-share

[GPV]

1. A tremendous loss

[hlthe2b]

2. Very sad loss. As memorable as his cartoons, his name was one I could always remember...

RIP sir and THANK YOU!

[sop]

3. One of my all-time favorite editorial cartoonists. RIP, Mr. Oliphant.

[MineralMan]

4. His political cartoons are legendary.

[LetMyPeopleVote]

5. May he rest in peace

[electric_blue68]

6. RIP, a favorite of mine....

Copied from other thread [I do enuff finger tapping 😄]

I loved alot of hs stuff! Mostly during Nixon 's terms. Missed a lot of Reagan's, Carter's cartoons, and beyond; basically bc I was no longer seeing his works in whichever newspapers I was reading.
So it might be an intermittent piece showing up in Time Magazine bc I did see a bit of G HW Bush's term.

I don't remember if he lived in Denver for a while but my mom was at a hospital for several months for new treatments for asthma in ?1970; and I think she sent me some of his cartoons bc they appeared in the Denver Post.
Anyway I think I asked her to write him and request an autograph. Anyway he did send a cartoon w autograph and I think a little note.

The cartoon that Iimmediately flashed through my mind on reading this was re. Nixon going to China.

Nixon is walking past a portrait of ? John Foster Dulles on the wall (left side of cartoon); JFD sort of partly leaning out of the picture frame and yelling at Nixon....
"That's my boy?!" And Nixon ( center right of the page) is cringing; partly covering his face w arm held over his head.

[DET]

7. Sad Loss

We’ve had one of Oliphant’s original large pen and ink cartoons (framed) for decades. It’s from the Nixon era. Nixon is drawn exhibiting a variety of facial expressions, ending with ‘I just can’t get that CANDOR expression’.