Johannes Leak (born 25 October 1980)
is a German-born Australian editorial cartoonist.
Life
He is the son of cartoonist
Bill Leak and Astrid.
He lived in
Dießen am Ammersee
Dießen am Ammersee (Southern Bavarian: ''Diaßn am Ammasä'') is a municipality in the district of Landsberg in Bavaria in Germany. It is located on the shores of the Ammersee.
Geography
Situated in the Bavarian Alpine Foreland the town stre ...
before moving to Australia.
He attended
Sydney Boys High School and then
Julian Ashton Art School for five years on a scholarship.
Leak's August 2020 cartoon of
Kamala Harris, the presumptive
Democratic vice presidential nominee in the
2020 election
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was deemed as offensive and racist by a number of politicians and journalists. The cartoon had used
Joe Biden's use of the phrase "little brown girls".
In February 2021, Leak was awarded a $40,000 contract from the
Australian Department of Parliamentary Services to paint an official portrait of former prime minister
Tony Abbott.
References
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Living people
1980 births
People from Landsberg (district)
Australian editorial cartoonists
The Australian journalists
21st-century Australian artists
Julian Ashton Art School alumni
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