BILL
He was one of the sweetest, funniest and most generous people I’ve ever known. Bill Leak died this morning at just 61 following a heart attack.
He was one of the sweetest, funniest and most generous people I’ve ever met. Bill Leak died this morning at just 61 following a heart attack.
I cannot believe he’s gone. None of us can:
Editor in chief Paul Whittaker described Leak as “a giant in his field of cartooning and portraiture and a towering figure for more than two decades” at the newspaper and said he was “simply irreplaceable”.
“We will miss him dreadfully and our hearts go out to his wife Goong, his stepdaughter Tasha and his sons Johannes and Jasper,” Whittaker said.
One of Bill’s huge number of friends today put it beautifully: “He was just a gift to humanity.”
UPDATE. Warren Mundine:
Devastated to hear my friend & favourite political cartoonist, Bill Leak, has died today. #auspol 😥 pic.twitter.com/rQaxyP34Nq
— Nyunggai W Mundine (@nyunggai) March 10, 2017
Absolutely:
What an honour to have counted this man as a mate. https://t.co/IWf6eSRRAd
— Chris Kenny (@chriskkenny) March 10, 2017
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