by Bruce Guthrie
Pat Oliphant died yesterday. Over the years, I saw him a fair amount, usually with Richard Thompson.
Richard and I had attended Art Wood's Great Cartoonist series at the Smithsonian back in 1983, but I wasn't taking photos then.
The
next time I saw him was when I ran into Art and he said Richard and Pat
and KAL were doing an exhibit together at Pat's wife Susan Conway's
gallery in Georgetown. That was in 1998 and that was my first time to
meet Amy Thompson and Charlotte, their first child.
When Pat was at Politics and Prose back in 2007, Hunter "Patch" Adams came in blue hair and a clown costume.
When Pat and Richard were both at San Diego Comic-Con in 2009
(the year that Richard announced he had Parkinson's), I attended Pat's
panel. I was sitting next to Susan Conway and Pat was talking about his
career, showing slides of some of his cartoons, and then doing random
drawings. When he drew Monica Lewinski giving Bill Clinton fellatio or
Sarah Palin getting rear-ended by a moose, Susan just covered her eyes
in mock embarrassment.
The last time I saw him was in 2018 when he came for the White House Historical Association book fair.
He'll be missed!
Some pics over the years.
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| with Joe Sutliff |
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| with Al Goodwyn |
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| with Ann Telnaes |
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| with Richard Thompson |
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| with Ann Telnaes, Clay Bennett, and Matt Davies |
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| with Rick Banning and Patch Adams |
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| with Mike Rhode |
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| Bill Clinton |
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| Sarah Palin |
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| with Richard Thompson and KAL |
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