CHARITY AUCTION - ZAPIRO CARTOON - LTD EDITION ARCHIVAL PRINT FEATURING MANDELA AND THE QUEEN

ZAPIRO CARTOON - LIMITED EDITION  - (41.5cm X 31cm)  - FRAMED

This limited edition is a print of the cartoon originally published in the Mail & Guardian in 1996 , at the time of President Mandela’s state visit to London. It is one  of only 25 inkjet prints using high performance pigment inked on cotton rag acid free paper, and framed.

Born as Jonathan Shapiro in Cape Town in 1958, His work as a cartoonist began in earnest with a wide range of political and progressive organisations. When the newspaper South began in 1987, he became its editorial cartoonist. He was detained by security police in 1988 shortly before leaving on a Fulbright Scholarship to study media arts at the School of Visual Arts in New York. New York was an eye-opening experience where he studied under comics masters Art Spiegelman, Will Eisner and Harvey Kurtzman. He returned to South Africa in 1991 and with Story Circle produced educational comics including Roxy (Aids education), Tomorrow People (democracy education) and A Trolley Full of Rights (a child abuse prevention comic later used by UNICEF elsewhere in Africa).

He was editorial cartoonist for Sowetan from 1994 - 2005 and appeared in the CapeArgus 1996 -1997. He has been editorial cartoonist for the Mail & Guardian since 1994, the Sunday Times since 1998 and since September 2005 also appears three times a week in CapeTimes, The Star, The Mercury and Pretoria News. He has held solo cartoon exhibitions in New York, Amsterdam, Frankfurt and many in South Africa. Has also exhibited in numerous group shows locally and internationally.

ALL PROCEEDS GO TOWARD UNION OF JEWISH WOMEN PROJECTS, BUILDING AN ABLUTION BLOCK FOR THE ELUNDINI DISABLED CHILDRENS DAYCARE CENTRE , AND THE MASIKHULULEKE CRECHE