I was very lucky all three newspapers approached me and asked me to draw their cartoons for them.
Jonathan Shapiro
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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.
Jonathan Shapiro
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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.
Jonathan Shapiro
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Mandela once phoned me out of the blue while he was still president, and at first he played with me a bit.
Jonathan Shapiro
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On one occasion in 1987 the security police came looking for me because of a drawing that I'd published.
Jonathan Shapiro
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Sometimes I have to compromise my views, but I never compromise on issues like the death penalty and the arm trade laws, despite what the readers or letters may say.
Jonathan Shapiro
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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.
Jonathan Shapiro
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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.
Jonathan Shapiro
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There was a teacher who recognized that I was interested in cartooning and he was great.
Jonathan Shapiro
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We do, and there is a law in the United States - the Torture Convention - that prohibits the United States from deporting an individual to a country where there is a reasonable expectation that he will be subjected to torture - physical, mental or otherwise.
Jonathan Shapiro
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What's much harder is taking on people in your own community.
Jonathan Shapiro
