South Africa

As I noted earlier, South Africa has a couple of good cartoonists but Zapiro is definitely the main man. Seems I'm not alone in thinking this :

There was "bewilderment and disbelief" when Mail & Guardian cartoonist Jonathan Shapiro, alias Zapiro, heard that he had been chosen as this year's principal Prince Claus laureate in The Netherlands, with prize money of €100 000 (almost R800 000).

 

"I am not quite sure what I felt when I heard the news. Bewilderment and disbelief, I think. It came out of the blue!” Shapiro told the Mail & Guardian Online on Friday while chasing his new puppy around the house. "I got a phone call from Holland five weeks ago and I couldn’t figure out what I was being told. And I had to keep it a secret."

 

Well done Zapiro!