Bruce Petty

Bruce Leslie Petty (23 November 1929 – 6 April 2023) was an Australian political satirist, sculptor and cartoonist. He was a regular contributor to Melbourne's The Age newspaper. His intricate images have been described as "doodle-bombs" for their free-association of links between various ideas, people and institutions. Age journalist Martin Flanagan wrote that Petty "re-invented the world as a vast scribbly machine with interlocking cogs and levers that connected people in wholly logical but unlikely ways."

He received a Silver Stanley Award from the Australian Cartoonists' Association; an AFI Best Documentary Director prize; Melbourne Press Club's Quill Lifetime Achievement Award; and the Most Outstanding Contribution to Journalism Walkley Award.

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