The Bleak Picture

Hardback

Main Details

Title The Bleak Picture
Authors and Contributors      By (author) Bill Leak
With The Australian
Physical Properties
Format:Hardback
Pages:224
Dimensions(mm): Height 291,Width 221
Category/GenreHumour
Cartoons and comic strips
ISBN/Barcode 9781460755112
ClassificationsDewey:741.5994
Audience
General

Publishing Details

Publisher HarperCollins Publishers (Australia) Pty Ltd
Imprint HarperCollins Publishers (Australia) Pty Ltd
Publication Date 16 November 2017
Publication Country Australia

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 Biography

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.