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Michael Leunig's cartoon, and essay, are still creating ripples ... Mine are already starting to flower and should be producing fruit in time for a delicious relish to serve with the Christmas turkey.
The Drive Thru Creche cartoon (2000) lost Leunig many fans. Credit: Michael Leunig In 2021, he outraged many with a cartoon equating COVID anti-vaxxers with the student uprising of Tiananmen Square.
In 1969 Leunig was sought out for work at the Age's then evening paper, where he amazed himself by managing to stick to the discipline of delivering six cartoons a week and filing by 9.30am every day.
Michael Leunig says he did not draw his controversial cartoon depicting a mother ignoring her baby while staring at a smartphone out of misogyny, but because of a lifelong special interest in the ...
Michael Leunig cartoon and poem Get A Life.. Rock poet Nick Cave and playwright David Williamson were among the celebrated who sent messages of love, but it was the anonymous who clearly found ...
A Michael Leunig cartoon has caused outrage online with many describing it as “condescending” and judgmental of mothers. Charis Chang @CharisChang2. less than 2 min read.
In 2015, Leunig told the ABC he and his family had received death threats amid the backlash to the cartoon. "'The belligerence of the pro-vaccination is quite surprising," he said.
Tony Walker injects his own prejudices into my article on cartoonist Michael Leunig in the Australia/Israel and Jewish Affairs magazine, The Review ("Free speech begins at home", February 10) .
According to the editor of The Age, its readers are now too far ahead of Leunig to appreciate some of his more broadly humane cartoons or his pro-individualist stances. They have left him behind.
A Leunig cartoon has been slammed as “offensive” over its comparison of mandatory vaccination to one of the world’s most infamous human rights abuses. Charis Chang @CharisChang2.