New Delhi, July 14 -- SANTA FE - Pat Oliphant spent the last decade of his life blind, unable to see his own drawings, yet he kept drawing. The glaucoma and macular degeneration that extinguished his sight around 2015, after six decades of work that had made him the most syndicated political cartoonist in American newspaper history, were not the kind of ending he would have drawn for himself. He died Monday at his home in Santa Fe. He was 90.

His son Grant Oliphant confirmed the death. The cause was described as age-related illnesses. He had lost his wife, art dealer Susan Corn Conway Oliphant, less than seven months earlier in December 2025 at 92. He is survived by three children, two stepchildren, a brother, four grandchildren, and two...