Australian cartoonist and poet Michael Leunig dies aged 79

How beloved cartoonist Michael Leunig, who was famous for his unique sense of playful whimsy, became a hated target for savage woke activists

Michael Leunig cared little about fitting in, less about conforming with woke cultural demands and not one iota about even being particularly relevant - which is why he was so widely popular.

The closest thing Australian cartooning had to a prophet: the sometimes celebrated, sometimes controversial Michael Leunig

Bunker. Image courtesy of Michael Leunig, CC BY-NC-SAMichael Leunig – who died in the early hours of Thursday December 19, surrounded by “his children, loved ones, and sunflowers” – was the closest thing Australian cartooning had to a prophet. By turns over his long career, he was a poet, a prophet and a provocateur. The challenge comes in attempting to understand Leunig’s significance: for Australian cartooning; for readers of The Age and other…

Aussie cartoonist Michael Leunig dies

Much-loved Australian cartoonist Michael Leunig has died aged 79. "The pen has run dry, its ink no longer flowing - yet Mr. Curly and his ducks...

'Pen has run dry': famed cartoonist Michael Leunig dies

Michael Leunig, whose whimsical cartoons have been saved on fridges and corkboards around Australia, has died aged 79.

Australian cartoonist Michael Leunig dies aged 79

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.His prolific career extended from his first job as a political cartoonist for the then-Melbourne Age in 1969 through to his last cartoon in The Age earlier this year, and he was named a living treasure by the National Trust in the 1990s."The pen has run dry, its ink no longer flo…

Gallery: Michael Leunig’s life in cartoons

An overview of Mr Curly and his ducks from The Age cartoonist’s celebrated, decades-long, sometimes controversial career.