Bruce Petty, an Australian humorist, cartoonist, and filmmaker, died at the age of 93. In a statement, Petty’s family announced that he passed peacefully on Thursday morning, leaving behind loved ones who will miss him greatly.
Bruce Petty obituary
Bruce Petty, who was born in the Melbourne suburb of Doncaster in 1929, began his career as an artist in 1949 at an animation studio in Box Hill. After his writing was published in periodicals such as The New Yorker and Esquire, he garnered international acclaim.
Petty returned to Australia to work as a notable political cartoonist for The Age and The Australian. His writing was noted for its incisive satire of Australian and global politics, showing the underlying workings of political machinery.
Petty recognized that it is customary for political cartoonists to take on community leaders. He argued, however, that the true power is held by the faceless elites that rule the global business world. Despite this, cartoonists continue to depict politicians, even if genuine power often resides with a different group of people, he claims.
Petty won an Academy Award for his short film Leisure in 1977, but he claimed he never received the award. Instead, he received a framed Oscar photo. Petty also received the Australian Cartooning Association’s Silver Stanley Award in 2001, the Quill Lifetime Achievement Award in 2009, and the Walkley Award in 2016.
Bruce Petty net worth
Bruce Petty’s net worth at the time of his death is estimated to be between $1 million and $5 million dollars.