Editing Pat Oliphant (section)

===''The Denver Post''===
In 1959, Oliphant traveled to the United States and Great Britain to learn about cartooning in those countries. He decided he wanted to move to the United States,<ref name="Richard Samuel West" /> but he had to wait five years until his contract with ''The Advertiser'' expired.<ref name="Richard Samuel West" /> In 1964, while preparing to move without a job, he learned that cartoonist [[Paul Conrad]] was leaving the ''[[The Denver Post|Denver Post]]''. Oliphant sent a portfolio of work to the ''Post''<ref name="Richard Samuel West" /> and was hired over 50 American applicants.<ref name="Down Under to Denver" /> He moved to the United States with his wife, Hendrika DeVries, and their two children.<ref name="Down Under to Denver" /> The ''Post'' featured a small snippet of Oliphant's cartoon on the front page as a "teaser" for what would be found on the editorial page.<ref>{{Cite journal|last=Stein|first=Ed|date=Winter 2004|title=Squeezing Originality out of Editorial Cartoons|journal=Nieman Reports|volume=58|issue=4|pages=38–40}}</ref>

Announcing his arrival, ''[[Time (magazine)|Time]]'' magazine stated, "Few U.S. cartoonists have so deftly distilled the spirit of [Lyndon B. Johnson and Barry Goldwater] as Australia's Patrick Bruce Oliphant, 29, a recent arrival who has not yet set eyes on either Johnson or Goldwater."<ref name="Down Under to Denver" /> Less than a year after Oliphant began working at the ''Denver Post'', in April 1965, his work was [[Print syndication|syndicated]] internationally<ref name="Ann Landi" /> by the Los Angeles Times Syndicate.<ref name="Ray Erwin 1965">{{Cite journal|last=Erwin|first=Ray|date=22 May 1965|title=Oliphant's Editorial Cartoons Distributed|journal=Editor and Publisher|pages=48}}</ref> Oliphant's reputation grew rapidly, and in 1967, he was awarded the [[Pulitzer Prize for Editorial Cartooning]] for his 1 February 1966 cartoon ''They Won't Get <u>Us</u> To The Conference Table... Will They?''<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.loc.gov/exhibits/oliphant/part1.html|title=Early Works in America – Oliphant's Anthem: Pat Oliphant at the Library of Congress &#124; Exhibitions – Library of Congress|first=Pat|last=Oliphant|website=www.loc.gov}}</ref> In this cartoon, [[Ho Chi Minh]] is depicted carrying the body of a dead Vietnamese man in the posture of a ''[[Pietà]]''. Oliphant had intentionally submitted what he considered one of the weakest cartoons he had published that year.<ref name="Mooning" /> When it won, he criticized the Pulitzer board, stating that they had selected the cartoon for its subject matter rather than the quality of the work.<ref name="Mooning" /> He refused to be considered for the award again and became a regular critic of the Pulitzer.<ref name="Mooning">{{Cite web|url=https://www.cjr.org/the_feature/mooning_the_pulitzer_board.php|title=Mooning the Pulitzer Board|website=Columbia Journalism Review|language=en|access-date=2018-12-17}}</ref>

According to [[Ralph Steadman]], Oliphant would have been [[Hunter S. Thompson]]'s "first choice of a 'cartoonist collaborator.'"<ref>{{Cite journal|last1=Sabin|first1=Roger|last2=Steadman|first2=Ralph|date=October 2007|title=Indulging a Filthy Habit|journal=Journalism Studies|volume=8|issue=5|pages=774–778|doi=10.1080/14616700701504740|s2cid=142807143}}</ref>