A Common Prayer
By (Author) Michael Leunig
HarperCollins Publishers (Australia) Pty Ltd
CollinsDove
6th August 1998
Australia
General
Fiction
220
Hardback
64
Width 110mm, Height 154mm, Spine 11mm
128g
A cartoonist talks to God.
In 1989, cartoonist Michael Leunig began an experiment. Asked to produce a weekly cartoon for Sunday Age, Australia, he remembers wondering 'if newspapers might carry some small spiritual message of consolation as a tiny reparation for the enormous anxiety and distress they can create' Since then, the two collection, A Common Prayer and the Prayer tree have brought his unique humour and intriguing drawings to a wide public across the world.
Michael Leunig is a cartoonist, writer, painter, philosopher and poet. His commentary on political, cultural and emotional life spans more than forty years and has often explored the idea of an innocent and sacred personal world. His work appears regularly in the Age and the Sydney Morning Herald. He was declared an Australian Living Treasure by the National Trust of Australia in 1999.