Renowned Australian cartoonist Michael Leunig has died, age 79, ending a five-decade career that stretched from the light and whimsical to the pointed and controversial.
cartoonist Michael Leunig has died, age 79, ending a five-decade career that stretched from the light and whimsical to the pointed and controversial.Melbourne Ageearlier this year, and he was named a living treasure by the National Trust in the 1990s.
"His passing will be mourned by millions, and felt acutely by readers of The Age, who for 55 years had the privilege of enjoying his work and wit," Elligett said, in a statement published by the paper.Leunig, the son of a slaughterman, was born in 1945 in East Melbourne and worked as a factory labourer and meat worker before starting life as a cartoonist.
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