Politics & Prose -- Pat Oliphant ("Leadership: Political Cartoons - The Bush Years") -- Notes:

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• Description of Pictures: Pat Oliphant's newest collection of sharp-witted cartoons tackles Bush's tenure in office, taking him and other leaders to task. Oliphant, a Pulitzer winner, is the most widely syndicated political cartoonist in the world.
  
  Neither Democrat nor Republican is safe from the influential paintbrush of political commentator and cartoonist Pat Oliphant. A master of what he calls "confrontational art," Oliphant spares no one as he covers Bush's tenure in office -- drawing comparisons on the war in Iraq to Vietnam, Kim Jong Il's nuclear antics to a circus act, and President George W. Bush's time in office with the reign of The Little King. Oliphant is the most widely syndicated political cartoonist in the world, currently published in more than 500 newspapers and magazines worldwide, including the "New York Times," the "Washington Post," and the "New Yorker,"
  
  Also in the audience tonight was Patch Adams (the subject of a Robin Williams movie), Bill Press (commentator), Mike Rhode (of http://comicsdc.blogspot.com/ ), and various other characters.
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  1. OLIPH_071018_001.JPG: A Japanese television crew was here to do a report on author tour in the United States, something that aren't that popular in other countries for some reason.
  5. OLIPH_071018_022.JPG: Pat Oliphant.
  6. OLIPH_071018_035.JPG: Patch Adams on the left.
  10. OLIPH_071018_063.JPG: Oliphant starts drawing Bushy.
  12. OLIPH_071018_079.JPG: Oliphant draws Cheney controlling the marionette Bushy.
  13. OLIPH_071018_107.JPG: Oliphant draws Condoleezza Rice.
  14. OLIPH_071018_121.JPG: Hillary Clinton.
  15. OLIPH_071018_130.JPG: John Kerrey.
  21. OLIPH_071018_169.JPG: Donald Rumsfeld.
  23. OLIPH_071018_178.JPG: Richard Nixon.
  25. OLIPH_071018_184.JPG: Patch Adams again.
  26. OLIPH_071018_189.JPG: Mike Rhode.
  29. OLIPH_071018_200.JPG: Patch asked a question at which point Oliphant said "Wow... Look at you!" and decided to draw him as well.
  62. OLIPH_071018_305.JPG: Bill Press on the right.
  68. OLIPH_071018_319.JPG: Patch doesn't like doing "normal" photographs so we had the nose-picking pictures, the I-have-to-go-to-the-bathroom-now pictures, the snot-from-nose pictures....
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