Leunig Studio

Leunig Studio Paintings, drawings, etchings & digital cartoon prints by Michael Leunig.

The Sunday Leunig: The Smile I shot a smile into the airIt fell to earth I know not wherePerhaps on someone else’s faceI...
23/08/2026

The Sunday Leunig: The Smile

I shot a smile into the air
It fell to earth I know not where
Perhaps on someone else’s face
In some forgotten, quiet place.

Perhaps somewhere a sleeping child
Has had a happy dream and smiled
Or some old soul about to die
Has smiled and made a little sigh.

Has sighed a simple final prayer
That lifts up gently in the air
And flows into the world so wild,
Perhaps to wake the sleeping child.

~Michael Leunig~

16/08/2026

Sunday Extra Leunig: Australian actor and friend of Michael Leunig, Bryan Brown, reads ‘Get a Life’ at Michael Leunig’s memorial service - Thursday January 30, 2025

The Sunday Leunig: Get a Life Anyone can get a life,Anyone can lose it,But who will dare to inhabit the thingAnd use it?...
16/08/2026

The Sunday Leunig: Get a Life

Anyone can get a life,
Anyone can lose it,
But who will dare to inhabit the thing
And use it?

A lived-in life
Will soon get loose and worn
From use and feeling:
Countless tiny scratches,
The shine goes off,
It’s very unappealing!

Dirt builds up,
A load of muck and grit;
A part of you gets lost:
A hope, a philosophy,
Or a love that doesn’t fit.

Another broken sleep,
A dream collapses;
A quick repair, it’s worth a try.
A scrap of string from the soul,
Perhaps a battered grin will fill the hole.
Or just a sigh.

Flakes and cracks!
A major idea buckles badly
A makeshift support is put up quickly;
A tired old joke could hide the dint,
Or be a wedge or a patch or a splint,
Truly, sweetly, sadly.

And yet it works and lives!
It all still goes.
It forgives.
It’s a miracle!
Worn in, bashed in, cried in,
And the great thing -
A lived-in life can be happily died in.


The Sunday Leunig: Duck Study - How you will know if a person (perhaps a politician, a policeman, a partner or a priest)...
09/08/2026

The Sunday Leunig: Duck Study - How you will know if a person (perhaps a politician, a policeman, a partner or a priest) is corrupt.

The Sunday Leunig: Narratives #
02/08/2026

The Sunday Leunig: Narratives #

The Sunday Leunig: Our Amazing Dog(For Barnaby and Stella)
26/07/2026

The Sunday Leunig: Our Amazing Dog
(For Barnaby and Stella)

The Sunday Leunig: AROMATHERAPIES - TRIED AND TRUE---
19/07/2026

The Sunday Leunig: AROMATHERAPIES - TRIED AND TRUE
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The Sunday Leunig: The Bed
05/07/2026

The Sunday Leunig: The Bed

The Sunday Leunig: ‘Oh darling… What a pity… I think your interesting personality has just been classified as a personal...
28/06/2026

The Sunday Leunig: ‘Oh darling… What a pity… I think your interesting personality has just been classified as a personality disorder’
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The Sunday Leunig: No understanding any timePublished 9/4/88
21/06/2026

The Sunday Leunig: No understanding any time
Published 9/4/88

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