Bad News, Leunig Has Made Another Cursed Boomer Cartoon, And People Are Angry
He's angry about young mothers with phones!
Oh no, Leunig is back, and he’s making cartoons again! Why won’t somebody stop him?
If you’re not aware, Michael Leunig is a veteran cartoonist and Australia’s most whimsical anti-vaxxer — he also hates marriage equality! Honestly, it’s bad enough that he does cartoons — the most hexed form of commentary in the blighted world of commentary — why do they also have to be grossly offensive?
How did he go from relatively inoffensive cartoons about shitty looking people who just really like flowers, to absolutely dank boomer nonsense? Did he crash his truck into a landlord convention or something? Did he get bitten by a radioactive string of pearls at a writer’s festival? Did he just… age?
Anyway, he’s at it again, and it is pretty stupid! The latest subject for his wicked yet whimsical satirical gaze? Parents on their dang iPhones!
Is he truly implying people are dropping babies out the back of their prams? Or is it… a metaphor? Regardless, I think most young mums — who are often isolated and stressed — are pretty fucking grateful for phones.
Why do old people hate phones so much?
Hey Leunig, you fucking gronk. I bet you never spent hours walking babies around in a pram, feeling isolated and alone and terrified. Fuck you and your condescending judgement. pic.twitter.com/CilWdzskPG
— Clementine Ford 🧟♀️ (@clementine_ford) October 23, 2019
Young parents have enough anxiety without this boomer bullshit. pic.twitter.com/GXshI5uizU
— Matt Burke (@matttburke) October 22, 2019
every day leunig flips a coin to decide whether he'll draw "what if a duck had depression" or "what if phones" https://t.co/0PL3HDmJ2B
— thomas violence (@thomas_violence) October 23, 2019
Out of interest was Leunig ever good? Surely there must have been some point at which people thought he makes some decent points?
Or has he just always been a weird mystery of The Age that no one could really explain https://t.co/5QiHIoVuWe
— Greg Jericho (@GrogsGamut) October 22, 2019
im gonna vaccinate leunig
— James Colley (@JamColley) October 23, 2019
Young Leunig gave thought to his future career,
‘Should I be a teacher, or a great engineer?’
But alas he received a sharp blow to the head
and became a shitty boomer cartoonist instead— Alaina Gougoulis (@radiomoderation) October 23, 2019
maybe Leunig fell out of a pram
— Brigid Delaney (@BrigidWD) October 22, 2019
Of course, people have pointed out that this is scarcely new bullshit from Leunig.
Along with the anti-vaxxing, he seems to disproportionately target mothers, which if movies have taught me anything, is probably because of psychology. And get this — bad psychology!
Anyway, he’s a ridiculous relic who should try painting a picture or something.
Fairfax have form publishing Leunig’s dangerous bullshit on child-raising. pic.twitter.com/VwnAUiEQCl
— Matt Burke (@matttburke) October 22, 2019
Leunig asks that we keep ’em barefoot, lactating and on their knees. Praying, of course. pic.twitter.com/3Jo9VF9IsC
— Kate ☕ (@erstkate) October 22, 2019
The new Leunig cartoon is wild pic.twitter.com/u2Lt0Tsd23
— CAM JAM THANK YOU MA’AM (@iamcameronjames) October 22, 2019
— Leunig is Dril (@leunig_is_dril) October 22, 2019