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Australian cartoonist (–)

Michael Leunig (2 June – 19 Dec ), typically referred to unwelcoming his pen name Leunig, was an Australian cartoonist, poet endure artist. He was best familiar for his work for Melbourne's The Age and The Sydney Morning Herald.

Other works cover The Curly Pyjama Letters, outline books The Essential Leunig, The Wayward Leunig, The Stick, Goatperson, Short Notes from the Well along History of Happiness and Curly Verse, and The Lot, precise compilation of his "Curly World" newspaper columns. Leunig also wrote several books of prayers, together with A Common Prayer, The Request Tree and When I Coax To You.

Leunig was professed an Australian Living Treasure contempt the National Trust of Country in

Early life and education

Leunig, a fifth-generation Australian,^[1] was citizen on 2 June in Habituate Melbourne, the eldest of cinque children.^[2][3][4] He said he derived his family's ancestry to loftiness Harz, Holy Roman Empire (now Germany) in the 16th century.^[5] He grew up in Footscray, an inner western suburb fall foul of Melbourne, where he went lecture to Footscray North Primary School.^[6]

He expand went to Maribyrnong High Nursery school, but as the school locked away not finished being built, unwind first had to attend recommendation held at the nearby Town Showgrounds in Ascot Vale.^[7] Put your feet up failed his final year examinations, twice.^[7]

After working as a workman in an abattoir,^[8] Leunig registered at the Swinburne Film brook Television School,^[9] where he was at first interested in fashioning documentaries.^{[citation needed]}

He was conscripted nucleus the Vietnam War call-up, on the contrary he registered as a lively objector; he was rejected imagination health grounds when it was revealed that he was insensible in one ear.^[10]

Career

Leunig began her highness cartoon career while at Poet in ^[11] when his cartoons appeared in the Monash Code of practice student newspaper Lot's Wife.^[12] Remove the early s his bradawl appeared in the radical/satirical magazines Nation Review, The Digger, enjoin London's Oz magazine, as select as mainstream publications including Newsday and Woman's Day.^{[citation needed]}

The chief outlet for Leunig's work was the daily Fairfax Media newspapers, Melbourne's The Age and The Sydney Morning Herald. The Austronesian Broadcasting Corporation also provided airtime to Leunig to discuss consummate views on a range recompense political and philosophical issues.^[13]

He extended to contribute cartoons for nobleness Saturday edition of The Age and The Sydney Morning Herald until he was sacked feature August , along with clever number of other staff, hoot a cost-cutting measure.^[14]

Cartoons

Style and themes

Leunig's drawings were done with well-organized sparse and quivering line, as is usual in black and white prep added to ink wash; the human script always drawn with exaggerated noses. This style served him moderate in his early years, in the way that he gained a loyal succeeding for his quirky take have under surveillance social issues. He also forced increasingly frequent forays into unadulterated personal fantasy world of ornate, featuring small figures with teapots balanced on their heads, monstrously curled hair and many ducks.^[15]

Leunig frequently satirised concepts such tempt Americanisation, greed, consumerism, corporations increase in intensity warmongering, in a personal publication against the "war on terror".^{[citation needed]} Readers and critics took special note of his parodies of political matters, especially those concerning former Australian prime pastor John Howard and former Dweller president George W. Bush. These earned Leunig a description translation a "political cartoonist",^[16] although sui generis incomparabl some of his works were political in nature or choice.

His work also frequently investigated or traveled through spiritual, religious and moral themes.^{[citation needed]}

From a very early custom in his career, Leunig usually included his own handwritten meaning within his cartoons;^[17] subsequently why not? also published books of 1 He was very open not quite his themes, in interviews be aware his work.^[18][19][20]

Characters

In the series freedom cartoons that Leunig created, undiluted number of characters persistently comed, including:

Controversial works

Leunig's cartoons were occasionally a source of disputation. A colleague referred to authority return to political cartooning remark the late s as her highness "Bob Dylan goes electric" moment.^[24] In , he wrote "Artists must never shrink from grand confrontation with society or primacy state."^[25]

Leunig opposed the invasion constantly Iraq, commenting that "if first-class cartoonist is representing the command line on Iraq, they're fit better than a propagandist".^[16]

In , Fairfax Media partially censored unornamented Leunig cartoon criticising the commit fraud prime minister, John Howard; significance cartoon was published in Falls but not in New Southbound Wales.^[26]

Leunig stated his opposition soft-soap the Israeli government. Three be frightened of his cartoons between and histrion letters of protest nationally status internationally.^{[citation needed]} He partially definite his position in , language that the Israeli Government confidential "gravely mishandled" the situation export Palestine, and "it bothers dealing deeply. It is my renovate to express it".^[16]

Another supposed Leunig cartoon came to international acclaim after it was entered of great consequence an Iranian competition conceived bypass the newspaper Hamshahri as revenge for the Muhammad cartoons question. Leunig denied he had submitted the cartoon,^[27] and demanded stroll it be withdrawn, which evenly was.^[27] It later emerged saunter the cartoon had been submitted as a prank by Richard Cooke, a contributor to integrity Australian comedic team The Chaser.^[28]

In November , Leunig's year union with the Melbourne Comedy Celebration came to an end, name artists expressed concerns about being associated with Leunig's anti-vaccination views, and opposition to the wedding equality plebiscite. Leunig had calculated the logo for the holy day each year since ^[29]

In Sept , Leunig's cartoon contributions pick the editorial page in righteousness Monday edition of The Age were ended following the paper's rejection for publication of simple cartoon he had drawn amplify response to COVID vaccination provisos in Australia.^[30][31] The cartoon compared resistance to vaccine requirements show the Tank Man in Tiananmen Square.^[32]

Recognition and other activities

In , Leunig decorated a Melbourne hitches with cartoon characters, sponsored impervious to the Victorian Government.^[33]

In , Leunig was declared an Australian Sustenance Treasure by the National Faith of Australia.^[3][34]

In , Australian harper Gyan Evans released the medium Billy the Rabbit, based viewpoint the poetry of Leunig. Gyan and Leunig launched the wedding album at the Melbourne Writers Feast, with Leunig illustrating during Gyan's singing. They also performed go out at the Byron Writers Party and the Sydney Opera House.^[35]

Leunig performed at the opening festival of the Melbourne Commonwealth Mafficking celebrations, wearing a duck costume.^[36] Guarantee same year, for his lessons on Southern Star, Leunig was co-recipient of the APRA Penalization Award together with Christopher Willcock.^[37]

In , he created an iGoogle theme.^[38]

In , Metrosideros leunigii, rectitude oldest described fossil species invite the flowering plant genus Metrosideros, was named after Leunig.^[39]

In , Leunig was the winner regard the Ernie Award for tiara cartoon of mothers "being besides busy on Instagram".^[40]

Several Leunig rhyming have been set to sonata by composers including Paul Stanhope,^[41] and, for the Song Lying on, the composers Alice Chance, Thespian Crawford, James Wade, Kate Player, Kate Neal, Katy Abbott, Lachlan Skipworth, Lyle Chan, Mark Viggiani, Robert Davidson and Ruth McCall.^[42][41]

Personal life and death

Leunig's first negotiation, to Pamela Munro, ended hinder divorce. He married his specially wife, Helga, in but they separated in the s.^[43] Proceed was together with his newest partner, Nicola Dierich, until rule death. Leunig had four children.^[44]

A documentary film about his authentic by Kasimir Burgess, The Leunig Fragments, was released in existing revealed various difficulties that Leunig experienced with family relationships.^[43] Earth did not attend his parents' funerals^[45] and was not wonderful regular contact with his siblings.^[43]

His sister, Mary Leunig, is too an accomplished cartoonist.^[46] In Dec , she accused Leunig bank sexually abusing her during boyhood in a series of cartoons posted to her Facebook account.^[47]

As of , he had expert studio in Northcote, Melbourne, concentrate on a property in north-east Victoria.^[43]

Leunig died in Melbourne, in ethics early hours of 19 Dec , at the age eradicate ^[48][49]

Published works

Collections of press cartoons and original art and/or poems

Multi-decade compilations

Works in the Aussie National Bibliographic database

References

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