Zapiro zaps another crazy year with a pen

ZAPIRO ANNUAL 2022:

It’s Not How It Looks! Zapiro

Jacana Media

IT’S Not How It Looks! is the 27th annual collection from cartoonist Zapiro. And it’s set to be yet another bestseller as his cartoons capture the craziness of yet another wild year.

The annual covers momentous events through Zapiro’s piercing eye and sharp pen. His award-winning cartoons make you laugh out loud while often wincing at the same time.

Zapiro says his main challenge is keeping pace with the constant chaos of life in South Africa: “Every time I think things cannot get any weirder they go and get twice as weird.

“Not even my crazy mind could invent a country where, at the same time, we have the devastating final Zondo report delivered (late), two Gupta brothers finally arrested and a brazenly crooked ex-spy chief revealing that millions of dollars in cash has been stolen from Cyril’s game farm. And that’s just one week of our lives!

“While overseas, Putin’s making a mad war, Boris is being completely Boris and the US Supreme Court goes back 50 years on women’s rights.”

Zapiro is Jonathan Shapiro. Born in 1958, he went through school in Cape Town, studied architecture at UCT, and experienced conscription, activism, detention and a Fulbright Scholarship to New York before establishing himself as a cartoonist. He is editorial cartoonist for Daily Maverick.

Previously he was published in the Mail & Guardian, Sowetan, Sunday Times, Independent Newspapers and The Times. He has won numerous awards and has two honorary doctorates. – Books Editor