Jonathan Shapiro
Jonathan Shapiro
Jonathan Shapiro, born 1958 in Cape Town, is a South African cartoonist, famous as Zapiro, whose work appears in numerous South African publications and has been exhibited internationally on many occasions. He is the nephew of British magician David Berglas and cousin to Marvin Berglas, director of Marvin's Magic...
NationalitySouth African
ProfessionCartoonist
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Unless you pull the trigger, plunge the knife, unless your act is the homicidal act, you're not eligible for the death penalty.
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I was also arrested a number of times.
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I would think a sense of the absurd is more important for a political cartoonist, because that could define things like a sense of hypocrisy or a sense of the things one has to be skeptical about.
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I was very lucky all three newspapers approached me and asked me to draw their cartoons for them.
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We do, and there is a law in the United States - the Torture Convention - that prohibits the United States from deporting an individual to a country where there is a reasonable expectation that he will be subjected to torture - physical, mental or otherwise.
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We don't intend to ask the reporters to reveal their sources,
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What's much harder is taking on people in your own community.
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There are certain people within the new government who have a slightly disturbing tendency toward authoritarianism, but there are so many checks and balances that in that way their noises are just noises.
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I eventually saw the satirical nature of caricaturing individuals.
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He's a scholar. He has plans for the future, ... He has plans which may have to be reevaluated and for which he is grieving.
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I am anti-Bush. A lot of what he stands for is the antithesis of what I stand for.
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Certainly in cartooning I'm given huge free rein at the moment.
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born into poverty, as a 3-year-old dealing with a mother dying of breast cancer, raised by a 12-year-old sibling.
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Even people that I agree with can do something that would be a target for a bit of humor.