The Bleak Picture. Cartoons From The Australian 1994-2017
Leak Bill
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Cover Type: Hardcover
Book Condition: Very Good
Jacket Condition: No Jacket
Publisher: HarperCollins AU
Publisher Place: Australia
Publisher Year: 2017
Edition: First Edition
Description: 232 pages. Ex-Library. Book is in Very good condition throughout.
Publishers Description: This is a beautifully illustrated collection of his most popular and enduring cartoons. Featuring over 200 cartoons from his remarkable life and career.
About Author:
Bill Leak (born 1956 in Adelaide, SA) was a painter, a writer and the daily editorial cartoonist for The Australian. Leak won two News Awards for Cartoonist of the Year, nine Walkley awards for excellence in journalism, nineteen Stanley Awards from the Australian Cartoonists' Association and been an Archibald Prize finalist twelve times. His portraits of Bob Hawke and Bill Hayden hang in Parliament House, and his portraits of Sir Donald Bradman, Dick Woolcott mand Robert Hughes are in the collection of the National Portrait Gallery. Leak's novel Heart Cancer was published by ABC Books in 2005 and he has published three collections of his political cartoons: Drawing Blood, Moments of Truth and UnAustralian of the Year.
ISBN: 9781460755112
(231160)
