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
act death eligible homicidal pull unless
Unless you pull the trigger, plunge the knife, unless your act is the homicidal act, you're not eligible for the death penalty.
people
What's much harder is taking on people in your own community.
certain checks disturbing government noises people slightly tendency toward
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.
asked cartoons draw
I was very lucky all three newspapers approached me and asked me to draw their cartoons for them.
phenomenal
It's phenomenal for me personally. I am still pinching myself about the award.
certainly consider focus issues paper saying specific work
I' m not saying that I wouldn't focus my work on issues that the specific paper would consider important, I would certainly do that.
events seemed
It was not one of those preplanned events. It seemed to come out of nowhere.
born cancer dealing dying mother raised
born into poverty, as a 3-year-old dealing with a mother dying of breast cancer, raised by a 12-year-old sibling.
bit people
Even people that I agree with can do something that would be a target for a bit of humor.
cartooning recognized teacher
There was a teacher who recognized that I was interested in cartooning and he was great.
advocate arrows cows knock sacred shoot social sorts
It's to be a person who's able to shoot little arrows into sacred cows and knock politicians off their pedestals, to look out for hypocrisy, advocate for all sorts of things from social justice to peace.
bad case harm judgment united
It may be a case of bad judgment bordering on stupidity. What Mr. Regan had with him was worthless. It wasn't even classified. It posed no harm to the United States.
bad case judgment
It may be a case of bad judgment bordering on stupidity,
change paper point
I try not to change my political point of view from paper to paper.