Personal life and death[edit]

Petty was married firstly to ABC journalist and film critic Julie Rigg. They had two sons. In 1988 he married award-winning author Kate Grenville, with whom he had a son and a daughter. He and Grenville separated, and Petty then partnered with the bookseller Lesley McKay.^[6]^[7]

Petty died on 6 April 2023, at the age of 93.^[8]

Hearts and Minds (1968)

Australian History (1971)

Art (1974)

(1976)

Leisure

Magic Arts (1978)

Karl Marx (1979)

Megalomedia (1983)

Movers (1986)

Money (1998)

The Mad Century (2000)

(2002)^[9]

Human Contraptions

Global Haywire (2007)

/ Bruce Petty with introduction by Ronald Searle (1962)

Australian artist in South East Asia

/ Bruce Petty (1967)

Petty's Australia fair

/ Bruce Petty (1969)

A portfolio of Petty

/ 1968, Ed. Ron Smith

The best of Petty

(1972, ISBN 0-14-003639-3)

The Penguin Petty

/ Bruce Petty (1976, ISBN 0-14-070060-9)

Petty's Australia: and how it works

/ Bruce Petty (1978, ISBN 0-909331-67-7)

The Petty age

/ Bruce Petty (1983, ISBN 0-00-636551-5)

Petty's money book

/ Petty (1986, ISBN 0-04-820029-8)

Women and men

/ Bruce Petty (1997, ISBN 0-14-025554-0)

Bruce Petty's the absurd machine

Bruce Petty (2008, Ed. Russ Radcliffe, ISBN 978-0-646-49028-1)

Petty's Parallel Worlds

(1972 sound recording) - interviewer, Hazel de Berg

Conversation with Bruce Petty

(1996 sound recording) - interviewer, Ann Turner

Interview with Bruce Petty, cartoonist and filmmaker

(picture) by Virginia Wallace-Crabbe

Portrait of Bruce Petty

IMDb

Bruce Petty (I)

Lambiek Comiclopedia biography.

Cartoon page of The Age newspaper

from The Age

Bruce Petty - 27 June 2004 article

- transcript of Andrew Denton’s ABC interview with cartoonist Bruce Petty, Bill Leak and Patrick Cook

Three Cartoonists

of Global Haywire in The Sydney Morning Herald

Review

discography at Discogs

Bruce Petty

at IMDb