Bruce Leslie Petty, an Australian political cartoonist, and satirist is well renowned for his intricate works, which are frequently referred to as “doodle-bombs” because of the unfettered linkages they made between various themes, personalities, and organizations. He was created in the Melbourne neighborhood of Doncaster on November 23, 1929.
Petty started working at the Owen Brothers animation studio in Melbourne in 1954 after relocating to the UK. There, The New Yorker, Esquire, and Punch all ran his cartoons.
After moving back to Australia in 1961, he held positions with The (Sydney) Daily Mirror, The Bulletin, and The Australian before joining The Age in 1976.
Cartoonist Petty also contributed to the renowned animated films Leisure, Art, Australian History, Hearts and Minds, and Karl Marx as an animator and director. Producer Suzanne Baker won an Academy Award for her efforts in the Petty-directed movie Leisure.
Petty won the Silver Stanley Award from the Australian Cartoonists’ Association in 2001, as well as the AFI Best Documentary Director award for the 2007 documentary Global Haywire, which he wrote, directed, and animated.
The documentary draws on interviews with scholars, students, and journalists to analyze the global pattern that explains how the world came to be as it is today.
Bruce Petty Age
Bruce Petty was aged 93.
Bruce Petty Height
His confirmed height is unknown.
Bruce Petty Family
Julie Rigg, an ABC journalist and film critic, was Petty’s first wife. The couple has two sons. He wed the celebrated author Kate Grenville in 1988, and the two eventually produced a son and a daughter. After he and Grenville divorced, Petty teamed up with bookseller Lesley McKay.
Bruce Petty Education
No data is available about Bruce Petty’s education.
Bruce Petty Awards
At the 2010 Melbourne Press Club Quill Awards, Petty received a lifetime achievement award for journalism. After being enshrined in the Australian Cartoonists Association’s hall of fame in 2014, he won the Walkley Award for journalism’s most outstanding contribution two years later.
Bruce Petty Books
- Australian artist in South East Asia / Bruce Petty with introduction by Ronald Searle (1962)
- Petty’s Australia fair / Bruce Petty (1967)
- A portfolio of Petty / Bruce Petty (1969)
- The best of Petty / 1968, Ed. Ron Smith
- The Penguin Petty (1972, ISBN 0-14-003639-3)
- Petty’s Australia: and how it works / Bruce Petty (1976, ISBN 0-14-070060-9)
- The Petty age / Bruce Petty (1978, ISBN 0-909331-67-7)
- Petty’s money book / Bruce Petty (1983, ISBN 0-00-636551-5)
- Women and men / Petty (1986, ISBN 0-04-820029-8)
- Bruce Petty’s the absurd machine / Bruce Petty (1997, ISBN 0-14-025554-0)
- Petty’s Parallel Worlds Bruce Petty (2008, Ed. Russ Radcliffe, ISBN 978-0-646-49028-1)
Bruce Petty Health and Death
Petty passed away on April 6, 2023, after a protracted illness. His illness’s specifics have not been made public.