Jonathan Shapiro

Sometimes I have to compromise my views, but I never compromise on issues like the death penalty and the arm trade laws,…

— Jonathan Shapiro

Primarily I'm a social commentator rather than someone who's out to get the belly laugh.

— Jonathan Shapiro

You can't undo a deportation.

— Jonathan Shapiro

It's to be a person who's able to shoot little arrows into sacred cows and knock politicians off their pedestals, to look…

— Jonathan Shapiro

I would think a sense of the absurd is more important for a political cartoonist, because that could define things like a…

— Jonathan Shapiro

Even people that I agree with can do something that would be a target for a bit of humor.

— Jonathan Shapiro

Mandela once phoned me out of the blue while he was still president, and at first he played with me a bit.

— Jonathan Shapiro

I try not to change my political point of view from paper to paper.

— Jonathan Shapiro

We do, and there is a law in the United States - the Torture Convention - that prohibits the United States from…

— Jonathan Shapiro

I was very lucky all three newspapers approached me and asked me to draw their cartoons for them.

— Jonathan Shapiro

Certainly in cartooning I'm given huge free rein at the moment.

— Jonathan Shapiro

On one occasion in 1987 the security police came looking for me because of a drawing that I'd published.

— Jonathan Shapiro

There was a teacher who recognized that I was interested in cartooning and he was great.

— Jonathan Shapiro

I see the cartoonist as contributing to the content, being critical, because we do poke holes in some of the dialogue and…

— Jonathan Shapiro

I normally keep a series of draft in a catalogue type of book in which I scribble, sketch and draw ideas.

— Jonathan Shapiro

Gee, I am a complete Luddite when it comes to computers, I can barely log on!

— Jonathan Shapiro

I think the eyes are very revealing and can expose a lot about a persons mood or character.

— Jonathan Shapiro

“Stories can educate, elevate, comfort, and afflict those who are too comfortable. They can create community. They can also drive people apart,…

— Jonathan Shapiro

I eventually saw the satirical nature of caricaturing individuals.

— Jonathan Shapiro

There are certain people within the new government who have a slightly disturbing tendency toward authoritarianism, but there are so many checks…

— Jonathan Shapiro

I am anti-Bush. A lot of what he stands for is the antithesis of what I stand for.

— Jonathan Shapiro

The cartoons which I enjoy have caused some kind of out rage, but they have got people talking about these issues out…

— Jonathan Shapiro

What's much harder is taking on people in your own community.

— Jonathan Shapiro