American newspaper editorial cartoonist Patrick Bruce Oliphant (born 1935) was a native of Australia, but came to the United States in 1964 because he saw more opportunity to develop his craft. Using his skill of caricature and satire, he targeted injustice, hypocrisy, and scandal, and skewered hoards of politicians.

Patrick Oliphant was born July 24, 1935, in Adelaide, Australia. Although his parents, Donald Knox and Grace Lillian, nee Price, encouraged him to draw, Oliphant originally set out to be a journalist. He began his newspaper career as a copyboy, first for the Adelaide News and later for the Adelaide Advertiser. At the Advertiser, though, Oliphant transferred to the art department, and by age 20 had been promoted to editorial cartoonist. Oliphant once said he got his inspiration for political cartooning from his father, "who distrusted parsons and politicians equally." Oliphant's editors liked his work so much that in 1959 they sent him on a...