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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
Police
Looking
Security
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" I eventually saw the satirical nature of caricaturing individuals. "
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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. "
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" Certainly in cartooning I'm given huge free rein at the moment. "
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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. "
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" There was a teacher who recognized that I was interested in cartooning and he was great. "
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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. "
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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. "
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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. "
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Will
" What's much harder is taking on people in your own community. "
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Community
Own
" I normally keep a series of draft in a catalogue type of book in which I scribble, sketch and draw ideas. "
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Ideas
Which
Sketch
" I think the eyes are very revealing and can expose a lot about a persons mood or character. "
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Character
Think
" Gee, I am a complete Luddite when it comes to computers, I can barely log on! "
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I Can
Barely
" 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. "
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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. "
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Talking
Enjoy
Kind
" I try not to change my political point of view from paper to paper. "
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Point Of View
Change
Political
" 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. "
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I See
Content
Find
" Even people that I agree with can do something that would be a target for a bit of humor. "
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Something
Target
People
" You can't undo a deportation. "
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You
Undo
Deportation
" I am anti-Bush. A lot of what he stands for is the antithesis of what I stand for. "
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He
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Lot