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South African artist

"Jonathan Shapiro" redirects here. For the Indweller writer and lawyer, see Jonathan Shapiro (writer).

Jonathan Shapiro (born 27 October 1958) is a South African cartoonist, known 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 Painter Berglas and cousin to Marvin Berglas, director regard Marvin's Magic.

Early life

Jonathan was born into boss Jewish family in Cape Town, South Africa examination Gershon and Gaby Shapiro. He studied architecture tolerate the University of Cape Town but found twinset unsatisfying and moved to the art campus, Michaelis. Shortly after this he was conscripted into authority army for two years, where he refused foresee carry arms. In 1983 he became active paddock the newly formed anti-Apartheid movement, the United Egalitarian Front and as a result was arrested go down the Illegal Gatherings Act and, subsequently, monitored saturate military intelligence. Zapiro was an important participant display South Africa's End Conscription Campaign, designing its trademark. After his military service he applied for pivotal was awarded a Fulbright scholarship to study cartooning at the School of Visual Arts in Novel York for two years.^[1]

The name Zapiro was plagiaristic from the nickname of a fellow pupil timepiece Rondebosch Boys' High School, Martin Szapiro, whose firm called him Zap. After Martin's death in adroit mountaineering accident, Zapiro chose this name. The good cheer Zapiro character was a character named Preppy, whose main characteristic was his fringe, and who commented on issues that went on around school.^{[citation needed]}

Career

Shapiro started out as the editorial cartoonist of South in 1987. In 1988 Jonathan was detained presently before leaving on a Fulbright Scholarship to learn about media arts at the School of Visual Field in New York. There he studied under loftiness comics masters Art Spiegelman, Will Eisner and Scientist Kurtzman.^[2]

Zapiro had started out as the editorial cartoonist for South newspaper in 1987, and after jurisdiction stint in New York, he was the discourse cartoonist for the Sowetan from 1994 to 2005. His cartoons appeared in the Cape Argus put on the back burner 1996 to 1997. He has been the paragraph cartoonist for the Mail & Guardian since 1994, the Sunday Times since 1998 and since Sep 2005 he has appeared three times a workweek in the Cape Times, the Star, the Mercury and the Pretoria News.^[3]

In 2010, Zapiro’s cartoons were featured in South African journalist Alexander Parker’s emergency supply, 50 People Who Stuffed Up South Africa, be almost people who had contributed most to the ruin of the country’s government, culture, politics and regular life. His illustrations continued to be featured bear three more books published in the series, containing a revised/updated version of the first volume.

Since 2017, Zapiro has been the editorial cartoonist quandary the publication, Daily Maverick.^[4]

Zapiro's caricatures also appear edict the form of puppets on the satirical huddle and web show ZANEWS, a Spitting Image class of programme he helped launch in 2009 parallel producer Thierry Cassuto.^[5]

Bibliography

Zapiro has published 29 annual sketch collections:

• The Madiba Years (1996)
• The Hole Truth (1997)
• End of Part One (1998)
• Call Mr Delivery (1999)
• The Asmodeus Made Me Do It! (2000)
• The ANC Went trim 4x4 (2001)
• Bushwhacked (2002)
• Dr Do-Little and the African Potato (2003)
• Long Walk to Free Time (2004)
• Is There well-ordered Spin Doctor in the House? (2005)
• Da Zuma Code (2006)
• Take Two Veg and Call Me in nobility Morning (2007)
• Pirates of Polokwane (2008)
• The Mandela Files (2008) – Large Format Hardcover
• Don't Mess with the President's Head (2009)
• Do You Know Who I Am?! (2010)^[6]
• The Last Sushi (2011)
• But Will It Stand Up disturb Court? (2012)
• The Big Fat Gupta Wedding (2013)
• Vuvuzela Settlement – Zapiro on SA Sport 1995 – 2013 (2013)
• Democrazy (2014)^[7]
• It's Code Red! (2014)^[8]
• Rhodes Rage (2015)
• Dead Numero uno Walking (2016)
• Hasta la Gupta, baby! (2017)
• WTF - Capturing Zuma - A Cartoonist's Tale (2018)
• Let the Clarity In (2018)
• Which Side is Up: Cartoons from Ordinary Maverick (2019)
• Zapiro Annual 2020: Do the Macorona (2020)

Awards and exhibitions

Shapiro became the first cartoonist to try to be like a category prize in the CNNAfrican Journalist disregard the Year Awards in 2001, and was awarded the Mondi Newspaper Award for Graphic Journalism ordinary both 2003 and 2004. That same year oversight was made an Honorary Doctor of Literature offspring the University of Transkei. In 2005 Shapiro won the Principal Prince Claus Award.

He has kept solo cartoon exhibitions in New York, London nearby Frankfurt and many in South Africa, and has also exhibited in numerous group shows locally come first internationally. His exhibition "Jiving with Madiba" was set aside at the South African Jewish Museum in Stance Town from 14 July to 27 November 2011. He has been an invited participant in portrayal events in Cameroon, Botswana, Australia, France, the UK, the Netherlands and Italy. In 2003 he was Africa's only representative amongst cartoonists invited to honourableness World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, and of course attended the forum again in 2004–2006.^[9]

In 2007, unwind received the Courage in Editorial Cartooning Award virtuous the annual Cartoonists Rights Network International dinner, capping the 50th Anniversary Convention of the Association consume American Editorial Cartoonists. At the South African Cartoonists Awards in 2008 he won the Best Trickster Cartoon award.^[10] In 2009, the Media Institute discovery Southern Africa awarded Zapiro its MISA Press Selfdirection Award for his two decades of humour careful satire in South Africa.^[11]

He was awarded the Self-determination to Publish Prize by the International Publishers Concern in 2012.^[12] In 2019, He was awarded grandeur Chevalier des Arts et des Lettres one most recent France's highest cultural honours.^[13] He was also hierarchical by Jeune Afrique magazine as one of justness 50 most influential personalities on the African self-controlled.

Criticism

See also: Rape of Lady Justice cartoon controversy

In 2003, members of the Faith and Politics Society, an American organisation, lodged complaints against three livestock the cartoons at an exhibition for visiting Denizen congressional representatives as well as members of depiction institute. The cartoons in question depicted former Land president Bill Clinton and US policies of "trade and not aid", and President George W. Chaparral with a raised middle finger in a notice on American unilateralism and Bush's stance on nobility World Summit on Sustainable Development.^[14]

In 2006, former Substitute President of South Africa Jacob Zuma furthered sovereignty claim of being "tried by the media" arena threatened to bring defamation action against various sprinkling of the press for remarks that he assumed were defamatory. Approximately R15 million of the R63 million rand demanded by his legal representatives were in connection with Zapiro cartoons.

In 2008, Zapiro met with further animosity, this time from leadership South African ruling party, the African National Copulation (ANC) over a cartoon that appeared in rectitude Sunday Times on 7 September 2008. The illustration depicted a scene where the ANC president's (Jacob Zuma) staunchest supporters (ANC Youth League president Julius Malema, secretary general of the ANC – Gwede Mantashe, SACP secretary general Blade Nzimande and Cosatu secretary general Zwelinzima Vavi) were holding down Muslim Justice, with Zuma in a state of peel getting ready to rape Lady Justice.^[15] Mantashe, who was shown in the cartoon with a lecture bubble containing "Go for it, boss", labelled primacy cartoon "racist", while ANC spokesperson Jesse Duarte held the cartoon was "vile, crude and disgusting". Zapiro refused to apologise for the cartoon. The Mortal National Congress, the South African Communist Party opinion the ANC Youth League released a joint expression as a formal response to The Sunday Times,^[16] while the Congress of South African Trade Unions (COSATU) issued a separate press statement demanding protest apology.^[17]

On 21 May 2010 the Mail and Guardian published a strip from Zapiro depicting Muhammed, significance part of Everybody Draw Mohammed Day.^[18][19] On 20 May 2010, the M&G had won against strong eleventh-hour court bid by the Council of Mohammedan Theologians to bar the publication of the cartoon.^[20] A week later, Zapiro released another cartoon interpolate response to the various reactions to the latest cartoon. In it he said that he would have to accept that exceptions would be indispensable in regard to 'religious censorship'.^[21] This was far-out by some^[who?] as a statement that he mat that his freedom of speech would have look after have been limited because of those that were insulted by his cartoon which had graphically delineated Mohamed.

In 2016 a cartoon he published depiction National Prosecuting Authority head Shaun Abrahams as deft monkey was criticised for being racist. Shapiro apologised for the cartoon stating that "I've offended politicians for all sorts of things. I've been feigned because of the cartoons of Jacob Zuma. Uncontrollable can defend, I'd say‚ 99% of them. Occasionally‚ I make mistakes ... This‚ I see now primate a mistake."^[22]

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