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Australian political satirist and cartoonist Bruce Leslie Petty was well-known for his elaborate works, which were sometimes referred to as “doodle bombs” because of the unrestrained associations they made between numerous concepts, figures, and organizations. On November 23, 1929, he was born in the Melbourne suburb of Doncaster.

After moving to the UK in 1954, Petty began working at the Owen Brothers animation company in Melbourne. There, his cartoons were published in The New Yorker, Esquire, and Punch. Prior to joining The Age in 1976, he worked for a number of magazines after returning to Australia in 1961, including The (Sydney) Daily Mirror, The Bulletin, and The Australian.

Cartoonist Petty also worked as an animator and director of notable animated movies, such as Leisure, Art, Australian History, Hearts and Minds, and Karl Marx. Suzanne Baker, a producer, received an Academy Award for her work on the film Leisure, which Petty directed.

Petty won the AFI Best Documentary Director award for the 2007 documentary Global Haywire, which he wrote, directed, and animated, and the Silver Stanley Award from the Australian Cartoonists’ Association in 2001.

The documentary examines the global pattern that explains how the world got to be it is today by drawing on conversations with academics, students, and journalists.