As a DMV native and news junkie of a certain age, I was bummed to learn that Pat Oliphant passed yesterday at the age of 91. For my (meager) money, Oliphant was nothing less than the greatest political cartoonist to ever smudge his hands in acerbic ink. He skewered politicians off all stripes and reserved some of his sharpest barbs for the hypocrisy of the Catholic church.
In reading more about him, I learned that there's a recently-made documentary about his life and career entitled A Savage Art. And so now I've got one more thing to watch.
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those are great-- i feel like my cartoon consumption, political and otherwise, really nosedived once I stopped reading a print version of the paper and stopped getting The New Yorker. after a hiatus, i did recently re-subscribe to "the week" in paper format, and that has a political cartoon section-- i really miss having magazines and newspapers lying around the house for desultory reading . . .
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