I think the eyes are very revealing and can expose a lot about a persons mood or character.
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I was very lucky all three newspapers approached me and asked me to draw their cartoons for them.
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On one occasion in 1987 the security police came looking for me because of a drawing that I'd published.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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