Here’s A Rare Piece Of All-Good News

It's hard not to smile at the picture of Australian cartoonist Bill Leak at the top of this piece on a forthcoming book illustration gig he's done featuring some of his famous subjects. Leak was a big story the fall of 2008 when he struck his head while trying to feed a bird and ended up almost dying: he was operated on twice, put into a multiple-day induced coma and given a 20 percent chance to live. The last time I ran across anything about Leak it was one of those "Holy crap, I'm alive" stories where the cartoonist was very skinny but grateful to be here, looking forward to getting back to work and trying to sort through what happened. Looks like he's back at work at least.

Now that I think about it, mostly I think I liked that story for the slang involved. Someone soon to die was "about to peg out." Downplaying the seriousness of a situation was "cracking hardy." Receiving a strong blow was "knocked rotten." Great stuff.
 
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