The Bleak Picture
(Hardback)
Publishing Details
The Bleak Picture
By (Author) Bill Leak
With The Australian
HarperCollins Publishers (Australia) Pty Ltd
HarperCollins Publishers (Australia) Pty Ltd
16th November 2017
Australia
Classifications
General
Fiction
741.5994
Physical Properties
Hardback
224
Width 221mm, Height 291mm, Spine 20mm
1144g
Description
This is a beautifully illustrated collection of his most popular and enduring cartoons.
Featuring over 200 cartoons from his remarkable life and career.
Author Bio
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.
