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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Certainly in cartooning I'm given huge free rein at the moment.
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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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Gee, I am a complete Luddite when it comes to computers, I can barely log on!
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The cartoons which I enjoy have caused some kind of out rage, but they have got people talking about these issues out in the open and in essence that's what its all about.
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I normally keep a series of draft in a catalogue type of book in which I scribble, sketch and draw ideas.
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The jury is going to carry the baggage of what happened in October back there (the jury room) with them. It is too much of a burden to carry.