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Jonathan Shapiro

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Certainly in cartooning I'm given huge free rein at the moment.


— Jonathan Shapiro


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Even people that I agree with can do something that would be a target for a bit of humor.


— Jonathan Shapiro


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Gee, I am a complete Luddite when it comes to computers, I can barely log on!


— Jonathan Shapiro


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I am anti-Bush. A lot of what he stands for is the antithesis of what I stand for.


— Jonathan Shapiro


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I eventually saw the satirical nature of caricaturing individuals.


— Jonathan Shapiro


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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.


— Jonathan Shapiro


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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.


— Jonathan Shapiro


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I think the eyes are very revealing and can expose a lot about a persons mood or character.


— Jonathan Shapiro


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I try not to change my political point of view from paper to paper.


— Jonathan Shapiro


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I was very lucky all three newspapers approached me and asked me to draw their cartoons for them.


— Jonathan Shapiro


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Shortly after this he was conscripted into the army for two years where he refused to carry arms. MantaJonathan Shapiro who is shown in the cartoon with a speech bubble containing "Go for it boss" labelled the cartoon "racist" while ANC spokesperson Jesse Duarte said the cartoon is "vile crude and disgusting". He has been the editorial cartoonist for the Mail & Guardian since 1994 the Sunday Times since 1998 and since September 2005 he has appeared three times a week in the Cape Times the Star the Mercury and the Pretoria News.

He is the nephew of British magician David Berglas and cousin to Marvin Berglas director of Marvin's Magic. 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.

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