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Rico Schacherl is a cartoonist based in Johannesburg, responsible for illustrating the highly successful comic strip Madam & Eve. Born in Austria in 1966, he claims he was drawing cartoons…>

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© Rico | Sep 12, 2013 | Finweek

20130912_rico

Here are the roughs RICO submitted to FinWeek for this week's cartoon. First he wanted to go with the NUMSA petrol attendants strike, but the magazine preferred the more business-centric story about South African Airways' (latest) turnaround strategy.

So Rico suggested the dinosaur idea. As Rico notes above, cartoonists love drawing dinosaurs, and will jump at every opportunity to do so. Editors prefer showing wasteful state enterprises as greedy pigs!

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