Cartoonist Bill Leak a lost legend, Paul Dorin

By Paul Dorin
Updated March 16 2017 - 1:33pm, first published 1:30pm

Bill Leak sadly passed away in Gosford hospital from a suspected heart attack at the age of 61, leaving behind a big blank space to fill in the political cartoon industry. It is still a shock and a tremendous loss, Bill had so many more cartoons to draw. Last Friday it had just been moments after l called Dymocks to put a copy of Bill Leak’s latest book aside Trigger Warning  aside and l received a text message from my aunty alerting me to the news Bill had passed.

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