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ronrat wrote:A frirnd of mine worked as a compositor for years in those buildings and died in his early 60s. Because he had no kids or wife James Hardie gets a freebie
RIP Trev and Brian
I'm sorry to hear that mate. Did you read Trevor's article I posted in the thread? It's beautiful, written with people like your mate in mind.
I did. Brian died and we never found out why. I was overseas at the time.
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Media lije Trevor are past history. They wait for something to fallout of social media now and then take sides.
The sort of cartoonist who would make one invoke Voltaire's famous principle through gritted teeth. To be honest, I was kind of amazed that a mainstream newspaper would publish such hateful garbage (although to be fair, Leunig in The Age is just as unhinged). Sad for anyone to die at such a young age, but I hope his legacy will be a brief footnote in the history of Australian political cartooning.
"Every time we witness an injustice and do not act, we train our character to be passive in its presence." – Julian Assange
For a long time he was accused of being a rabid lefty; more recently he has been taking pot-shots at the would-be censors of the same group who used to love him when he was so rude about the Howard government.
Every dead body on Mt Everest was once a highly motivated person, so maybe just calm the **** down.
For a long time he was accused of being a rabid lefty; more recently he has been taking pot-shots at the would-be censors of the same group who used to love him when he was so rude about the Howard government.
Those who know Fred Negro know that cartoonists by nature love a good piss take. Leak no different.
For a long time he was accused of being a rabid lefty; more recently he has been taking pot-shots at the would-be censors of the same group who used to love him when he was so rude about the Howard government.
There is clearly a fearless core of uncomfortable truth in much of what he published, and that is the cartoonist's job. I didn't think he was especially witty or paradoxical, though, which is the other hallmark of a great cartoonist. The 2007 election "tsunami" cartoon is a good example of a great political cartoon, but there are not so many of these.
At least he was prepared to depict things that fashionable opinion would rather not have discussed. That is a credit to him.
The club has paid their respects in the passing of Trevor Grant on the club's website.
The President, Board, staff and members of the Collingwood Football Club would like to express their sadness at the passing of respected journalist and passionate Collingwood man Trevor Grant.
A sports journalist for more than 40 years, Grant worked in Melbourne newspapers between 1968 and 2008. For years, Victorians read his work in the Herald Sun, the Sunday Herald Sun, the Sunday Press, the Sunday Herald, The Age, the Sporting Globe and Newsday.
A passionate Collingwood supporter, Grant was one of the five-man panel that selected Collingwood's Team of the Century in 1997. It was the first Team of the Century to be named by an AFL club.
The club would like to extend its deepest sympathies to the Grant family.
^ I don't know how anyone could not like Leunig. Perhaps I have not seen enough of his recent work, but he is surely one of the most whimsically satisfying cartoonists ever. I don't especially agree with his world view, but he has a profoundly original mind and something to say about life that seems far above Bill Leak.
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