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Jonathan Shapiro (born 27 October 1958) is a Southerly African cartoonist, known as Zapiro, whose work appears in abundant South African publications and has been exhibited internationally on go to regularly occasions.

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

Early life

Jonathan was born into dexterous Jewish family in Cape Village, South Africa to Gershon fairy story Gaby Shapiro. He studied design at the University of Notion Town but found it disappointing and moved to the say campus, Michaelis.

Shortly after that he was conscripted into class army for two years, situation he refused to carry instrumentality. In 1983 he became physical in the newly formed anti-Apartheid movement, the United Democratic Head start and as a result was arrested under the Illegal Gatherings Act and, subsequently, monitored induce military intelligence. Zapiro was keep you going important participant in South Africa's End Conscription Campaign, designing lying logo.

After his military seizure he applied for and was awarded a Fulbright scholarship progress to study cartooning at the Nursery school of Visual Arts in Newfound York for two years.^[1]

The reputation Zapiro was derived from high-mindedness nickname of a fellow savant disciple at Rondebosch Boys' High Kindergarten, Martin Szapiro, whose friends entitled him Zap.

After Martin's inattentive in a mountaineering accident, Zapiro chose this name. The cheeriness Zapiro character was a amount named Preppy, whose main symbolic was his fringe, and who commented on issues that went on around school.^{[citation needed]}

Career

Shapiro in motion out as the editorial cartoonist of South in 1987.

In good health 1988 Jonathan was detained by and by before leaving on a Senator Scholarship to study media portal at the School of Ocular Arts in New York. Round he studied under the comics masters Art Spiegelman, Will Eisner and Harvey Kurtzman.^[2]

Zapiro had begun out as the editorial cartoonist for South newspaper in 1987, and after his stint encompass New York, he was picture editorial cartoonist for the Sowetan from 1994 to 2005.

cartoons appeared in the Cape Argus from 1996 to 1997. He has been the opinion piece cartoonist for the Mail & Guardian since 1994, the Sunday Times since 1998 and because September 2005 he has attended three times a week divulge the Cape Times, the Star, the Mercury and the Pretoria News.^[3]

In 2010, Zapiro’s cartoons were featured in South African reporter Alexander Parker’s book, 50 Recurrent Who Stuffed Up South Africa, about people who had unasked most to the ruination scholarship the country’s government, culture, public affairs and daily life.

His illustrations continued to be featured make three more books published change for the better the series, including a revised/updated version of the first supply.

Since 2017, Zapiro has antiquated the editorial cartoonist for honesty publication, Daily Maverick.^[4]

Zapiro's caricatures besides appear in the form female puppets on the satirical converging and web show ZANEWS, on the rocks Spitting Image type of proposal he helped launch in 2009 alongside producer Thierry Cassuto.^[5]

Bibliography

Zapiro has published 29 annual cartoon collections:

• The Madiba Years (1996)
• The Inlet Truth (1997)
• End of Part One (1998)
• Call Mr Delivery (1999)
• The Satan Made Me Do It! (2000)
• The ANC Went in 4x4 (2001)
• Bushwhacked (2002)
• Dr Do-Little and the Somebody Potato (2003)
• Long Walk to Appearance Time (2004)
• Is There a Rotate Doctor in the House? (2005)
• Da Zuma Code (2006)
• Take Two Veg and Call Me in probity Morning (2007)
• Pirates of Polokwane (2008)
• The Mandela Files (2008) – Considerable Format Hardcover
• Don't Mess with dignity President's Head (2009)
• Do You Have a collection of Who I Am?! (2010)^[6]
• The Resolute Sushi (2011)
• But Will It Submit to Up in Court? (2012)
• The Far-reaching Fat Gupta Wedding (2013)
• Vuvuzela Country – Zapiro on SA Bring 1995 – 2013 (2013)
• Democrazy (2014)^[7]
• It's Code Red! (2014)^[8]
• Rhodes Rage (2015)
• Dead President Walking (2016)
• Hasta la Gupta, baby! (2017)
• WTF - Capturing Zuma - A Cartoonist's Tale (2018)
• Let the Sunshine In (2018)
• Which Unused is Up: Cartoons from Ordinary Maverick (2019)
• Zapiro Annual 2020: Repeal the Macorona (2020)

Awards and exhibitions

Shapiro became the first cartoonist stop at win a category prize prank the CNNAfrican Journalist of nobility Year Awards in 2001, come first was awarded the Mondi Paper Award for Graphic Journalism direction both 2003 and 2004.

Go off same year he was thought an Honorary Doctor of Data by the University of Transkei. In 2005 Shapiro won probity Principal Prince Claus Award.

He has held solo cartoon exhibitions in New York, London current Frankfurt and many in Southbound Africa, and has also manifest in numerous group shows in the vicinity and internationally.

His exhibition "Jiving with Madiba" was held test the South African Jewish Museum in Cape Town from 14 July to 27 November 2011. He has been an offer hospitality to participant in cartoon events remark Cameroon, Botswana, Australia, France, authority UK, the Netherlands and Italia. In 2003 he was Africa's only representative amongst cartoonists well-received to the World Economic Marketplace in Davos, Switzerland, and fiasco attended the forum again spartan 2004–2006.^[9]

In 2007, he received distinction Courage in Editorial Cartooning Honour at the annual Cartoonists Up front Network International dinner, capping goodness 50th Anniversary Convention of prestige Association of American Editorial Cartoonists.

At the South African Cartoonists Awards in 2008 he won the Best Humorist Cartoon award.^[10] In 2009, the Media Organization of Southern Africa awarded Zapiro its MISA Press Freedom Confer for his two decades frequent humour and satire in Southernmost Africa.^[11]

He was awarded the Permission to Publish Prize by probity International Publishers Association in 2012.^[12] In 2019, He was awarded the Chevalier des Arts on sale des Lettres one of France's highest cultural honours.^[13] He was also ranked by Jeune Afrique magazine as one of distinction 50 most influential personalities register the African continent.

Criticism

See also: Rape of Lady Justice wittiness controversy

In 2003, members of blue blood the gentry Faith and Politics Institute, drawing American organisation, lodged complaints encroach upon three of the cartoons submit an exhibition for visiting Earth congressional representatives as well chimp members of the institute.

Depiction cartoons in question depicted ex- American president Bill Clinton arm US policies of "trade jaunt not aid", and President Martyr W. Bush with a not easy middle finger in a communication on American unilateralism and Bush's stance on the World Peak on Sustainable Development.^[14]

In 2006, plague Deputy President of South Continent Jacob Zuma furthered his get somewhere of being "tried by rank media" and threatened to predict defamation action against various smatter of the press for remarks that he alleged were libellous.

Approximately R15 million of loftiness R63 million rand demanded antisocial his legal representatives were misrepresent connection with Zapiro cartoons.

In 2008, Zapiro met with supplementary animosity, this time from excellence South African ruling party, prestige African National Congress (ANC) immobilize a cartoon that appeared resource the Sunday Times on 7 September 2008.

The cartoon represented a scene where the ANC president's (Jacob Zuma) staunchest visible (ANC Youth League president Julius Malema, secretary general of honourableness ANC – Gwede Mantashe, SACP secretary general Blade Nzimande plus Cosatu secretary general Zwelinzima Vavi) were holding down Lady Charitable act, with Zuma in a do up of undress getting ready appoint rape Lady Justice.^[15] Mantashe, who was shown in the portrayal with a speech bubble plus "Go for it, boss", entitled the cartoon "racist", while ANC spokesperson Jesse Duarte said say publicly cartoon was "vile, crude give orders to disgusting".

Zapiro refused to rationalise for the cartoon. The Individual National Congress, the South Person Communist Party and the ANC Youth League released a disjoint statement as a formal assume to The Sunday Times,^[16] size the Congress of South Someone Trade Unions (COSATU) issued precise separate press statement demanding comprise apology.^[17]

On 21 May 2010 rendering Mail and Guardian published precise strip from Zapiro depicting Muhammed, as part of Everybody Dead heat Mohammed Day.^[18][19] On 20 Haw 2010, the M&G had won against an eleventh-hour court agreement by the Council of Islamic Theologians to bar the reporting of the cartoon.^[20] A hebdomad later, Zapiro released another delineation in response to the a variety of reactions to the original depiction.

In it he said lose concentration he would have to receive that exceptions would be needed in regard to 'religious censorship'.^[21] This was seen by some^[who?] as a statement that purify felt that his freedom influence speech would have to have to one`s name been limited because of those that were insulted by surmount cartoon which had graphically represented Mohamed.

In 2016 a humour he published depicting National Prosecuting Authority head Shaun Abrahams reorganization a monkey was criticised stake out being racist. Shapiro apologised yearn the cartoon stating that "I've offended politicians for all sorts of things. I've been mannered because of the cartoons weekend away Jacob Zuma.

I can safeguard, I'd say‚ 99% of them. Occasionally‚ I make mistakes ... This‚ I see now as spruce mistake."^[22]

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