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
cartoonist holes poke ways
I see the cartoonist as contributing to the content, being critical, because we do poke holes in some of the dialogue and find new ways of seeing things.
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a planner, a schemer, and one capable of deception and dangerous results on his own.
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At which point he, very gently, without virtually saying a word, escorted the little boy from his seat.
belly primarily
Primarily I'm a social commentator rather than someone who's out to get the belly laugh.
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Sometimes I have to compromise my views, but I never compromise on issues like the death penalty and the arm trade laws, despite what the readers or letters may say.
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She is a no-nonsense judge, and she doesn't abide by nonsense from the defense or the prosecutor. Being a former assistant U.S. attorney, she holds the government attorneys to a very high standard, which is as it should be. She is evidently very disturbed by the developments in this case, which is as it should be as well.
mandela played
Mandela once phoned me out of the blue while he was still president, and at first he played with me a bit.
came drawing looking occasion police security
On one occasion in 1987 the security police came looking for me because of a drawing that I'd published.
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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.
ask intend reporters reveal
We don't intend to ask the reporters to reveal their sources,
expose persons revealing
I think the eyes are very revealing and can expose a lot about a persons mood or character.
future plans
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.
nature satirical
I eventually saw the satirical nature of caricaturing individuals.
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I am anti-Bush. A lot of what he stands for is the antithesis of what I stand for.