Australia has a long and proud tradition of political cartooning, and Bill Leak is currently one of its foremost practitioners as he skewers leaders who operate in bad faith or engage in cynical manipulation of public opinion. Cartoon topics include terrorism, the Iraq war, Abu Ghraib, Guatanamo, corporate scandals, and frenzied consumer spending.
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Bill Leak is a satirist, a political cartoonist, and a respected portrait artist. He has won 19 Stanley Awards, the most prestigious national award for Australian cartoonists.
"Political cartooning in Australia continues to be a particularly resilient, robust form of satire." —Canberra Times
"What this book does so well is to show that the crafts of drawing and writing can be brought to bear efficiently on serious issues." —Artlink
"A fantastic, gut-bustingly funny new compendium of political drawings." —Fremantle Herald
"Merciless political mirth at its best." —Rip It Up
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