Background
Leahy, Sean was born on March 30, 1958 in Cork, Ireland. Son of Michael John and Josephine Teresa Leahy. arrived in Australia, 1960.
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Sean Leahy
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Student, Perth Technology College, West Australia, 1976-1979; student, University Western Australia, 1976-1981; student, University Queensland, 1983-1984.
Career
He draws political cartoons for the paper, and also his own comic strip, Beyond the Black Stump, which is distributed in Australia. In 1974, Sean Leahy began his cartooning career on the suburban weekly The Darling Advertiser while still in high school. One year later, his cartoons became a twice weekly feature of The West Australian, making him, at 17, the youngest political cartoonist in Australia at a metropolitan daily.
When he was there, he spent time at Mike Jones Film Corporation in Minneapolis before returning to Perth.
In 1983, he left The West Australian and joined The Daily Sun, then in 1985 The Courier-Mail in Brisbane. Beginning in 1988, Leahy started the nationally syndicated comic strip, which he writes and draws.
Achievements
Membership
Member Australian Black and White Artists Club (vice president since 1989), QueenslandScreen Prodrs. (Executive officer), Greenpeace, Amnesty International, Cartoonists and Writers Syndicate.
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Nationality
Australian
Awards
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Recipient Queen Elizabeth Jubilee Trust award for young Australians, 1982. Named Best Australian Sports Cartoon W.D. and H.O. Wills, Canberra, 1985, Best Australian Comic Strip, Rothmans Cartoon Awards, 1991.Recipient Queen Elizabeth Jubilee Trust award for young Australians, 1982. Named Best Australian Sports Cartoon W.D. and H.O. Wills, Canberra, 1985, Best Australian Comic Strip, Rothmans Cartoon Awards, 1991.