Australian cartoonist, poet and writer Michael Leunig has died aged 79. His death was announced on social media: "The pen has run dry, its ink no longer flowing – yet Mr Curly and his ducks will remain etched in our hearts, cherished and eternal."
Dr Ali Alizadeh, Senior Lecturer, Literary Studies, Faculty of Arts
Contact: +61 435 230 249 or Ali.Alizadeh@monash.edu
Comments attributable to Dr Alizadeh:
“Leunig was a truly strange, contradictory artist. A political cartoonist who despised politics, a poet whose poems were shamelessly unpoetic, a moralist who offended moralists, a mainstream media celebrity amidst the decline of mainstream media.’’
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