Pat Oliphant, cartoonist who skewered the powerful, dies at 90

The winner of countless awards, including a Pulitzer Prize, he was described in 1990 as ‘the most influential political cartoonist now working’

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Pat Oliphant, the dean of political cartoonists, who drew and sometimes eviscerated a rogues’ gallery of presidents, pedophile priests, warmongers and other editorial-page villains for American newspaper and online readers for half a century, died on Monday in Santa Fe, New Mexico. He was 90.

His son, Grant Oliphant, said he had died at home of age-related health issues.

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