Biography
Leon Orsmond was born in 1956 in Stutterheim and earned his degree in graphic design from the Natal Technicon in Durban before joining a Durban advertising company in 1979. He worked as a freelance cartoonist for the Sunday Tribune, creating political drawings in 1981 and starting his politically oriented strip “Grunts” in 1982. He is known for his meticulous, yet humorous drawings of people.