A documentary on the career and influence of South African cartoonist Jonathan Shapiro, AKA Zapiro, debuted at the Durban International Film Festival in South Africa. The film focuses on Zapiro’s controversial cartoons during Jacob Zuma’s presidential term, challenging the boundaries of freedom of expression. The documentary description: The Showerhead examines the work of cartoonist Zapiro, […]
Fox News profiles Jonathan Shapiro (“Zapiro”): Shapiro, 55, has made a career of stripping away taboos and artifice with satire. Sometimes he gets sued, most notably by President Jacob Zuma. The Mandela cartoon in April for The Times, a South African newspaper, was one of his gentler efforts and a commentary on a nation that […]
Editorial cartoonist Jeremy Nell, who goes by the pen name Jerm, has joined eNCA – the largest television news network in South Africa and will be providing four cartoons a week. His first cartoon appeared Tuesday. Says Jeremy Nell, editorial cartoonist: “While print media dwindles, I am chuffed to be at the forefront of South […]
Last week a Jonathan Shapiro (AKA Zapiro) cartoon ran in the Mail and Guardian depicting South African President Jacob Zuma as a penis. For context, the BBC explains that the African National Congress forced an art gallery to remove a painting of President Zuma with exposed genitals which touched off a debate about free expression […]
New Yorker cartoonist Donna Barstow has picked a fight with Something Awful – a user forum notorious for ridicule of comics and those who make them. From Boing Boing: Slate cartoonist Donna Barstow railed on Monday at online forum Something Awful, whose denizens often repost her work and subject it to withering ridicule. Though one […]
A commission with a really, really long name (“Commission for the Promotion and Protection of the rights of Cultural, Religious and Linguistic Communities”) has taken issue with Jonathan Shapiro’s (AKA Zapiro) continued use of a shower head drawn above South Africa President Jacob Zuma. The group calls it “culturally, religiously and linguistically unprecedented to attack […]
Jonathan Shapiro (AKA Zapiro) has once again depicted South African president Jacob Zuma preparing to rape a woman. This cartoon depicts Zuma with iconic shower head in front of a woman labeled “Free Speech” being held by the ANC with Lady Justice (the target of the last rape cartoon) warning Free Speech “Fight, sister, fight!” […]
South African editorial cartoonist Jonathan Shapiro (AKA “Zapiro”) is fighting two lawsuits lodged against him by South African President Jacob Zuma for what is claimed offensive cartoons. Combined, the two defamation suits seek damages up to 7 million. Not only is Zapiro fighting those suits, he’s also fighting against a government initiative that would “seek […]
The South African Human Rights Commission has dismissed a complaint brought by the Young Communist League and its national secretary Buti Manamela alleging that the “Lady Justice” editorial cartoon by Jonathan Shapiro (“Zapiro”) depicting the now President of South Africa Jacob Zuma readying to rape Lady Justice. The commission found the cartoon was “free, open, […]