Jeremy Nell

Jeremy Nell
BornJeremy Talfer Nell
1979 (age 44–45)
Cape Town, South Africa
NationalitySouth African
Area(s)Cartoonist
Pseudonym(s)Jerm
Notable works
Jerm Warfare
jermdraws.com

Jeremy Talfer Nell (born 1979) is a South African cartoonist who writes under the pen name Jerm. In 2020, his public page was removed by Facebook after repeatedly violating the social network's policies against hate speech.[1] He was previously requested to retract a homophobic statement made on another social network, Twitter.[2]

Early life and education[edit]

Jeremy Talfer Nell was born in 1979[3] in Cape Town, South Africa. Nell attended Fairmont High School.[4] After graduating, Nell went to study art and sculpture at the University of Cape Town but failed the course and dropped out.[5][6]

Career[edit]

Nell became a cartoonist in November 2005, after being retrenched.[7][5] Nell did not complete formal art training.[6]

Nell's first commercially published work and nationally syndicated comic strip Urban Trash (first published November 2005), ended 27 June 2008.[8][9][10]

In 2010, Nell became the first political cartoonist for the newly launched The New Age, a pro-ANC daily newspaper. He was dismissed in 2012.[11][12]

In 2012, Nell became the first political cartoonist for Eyewitness News.[13][14] That year he cited Zapiro and Quentin Blake as being among his favourite cartoonists.[4]

In 2013, Nell became the first political cartoonist for the eNCA television network.[15][16]

In February 2014, Nell voiced his support for David Bullard when Bullard donated to a rape charity (who returned his donation) after being criticised for accusing rape survivor and activist Michelle Solomon of having faked her rape.[17]

In December 2014, Nell was forced to apologise for making a homophobic remark online. After receiving heavy criticism for a tweet regarding the trial of Shrien Dewani, during which the prosecution heard that Dewani was bisexual, Nell apologised and retracted his statement.[18][19][20]

In January 2020, after Democratic Alliance chairperson Helen Zille shared a controversial racial cartoon created by Nell, Facebook closed Nell's public page, which had nearly 60,000 followers. Nell said he had previously violated the site's rules against hate speech.[21] According to Mail & Guardian critic Christopher McMichael, Nell's political cartoons portray black politicians as "baying for white genocide" and reveal crypto-fascist ideas about racial intelligence.[22]

Nell worked for the South African Institute of Race Relations's online publication The Daily Friend between 2019 and 2021.[23][24][25][26]

Nell joined TNT Radio in 2022 and hosts his own show. Jeremy Nell

Publishing and awards[edit]

Penguin Books have published two cartoon collections by Nell, Jerm Warfare (2013) and Comedy Club (2014).[27][28][29] Additionally, some of his work features in (and on the front cover of) the 2009 edition of the South African political cartooning annual Don't Joke: A Year in Cartoons, as well as in the 2010 edition, Just For Kicks.[30][31]

Nell won the national 2011 Vodacom Journalist of the Year Cartoon of the Year award for his cartoon Africa 2.0.[32][33]

The Mail & Guardian named Nell as one of their "Top 200 Young South Africans" in 2012.[34]

Nell was a finalist at the 2014 Standard Bank Sikuvile Journalism Awards.[35]

References[edit]

  1. ^ "Facebook shuts down cartoonist's page after Zille storm on Twitter". Times Live.
  2. ^ "Cartoonist in hot water over 'homophobic' Dewani tweet". News24.
  3. ^ Verster, Francois (2010). A critique of the Rape of Justicia, with emphasis on seven cartoons by Zapiro (2008–2010) (PDF) (MPhil). University of Stellenbosch. p. 53. Retrieved 1 June 2017. Jeremy Talfer Nell (born 1979), and Zapiro are carrying on the work of the liberal cartoonist...
  4. ^ a b "The end of freedom of speech? The cartoonist's plight..." News24. 14 December 2012. Retrieved 17 August 2017.
  5. ^ a b "Game Changer: Jeremy 'Jerm' Nell". Men's Health. Retrieved 15 March 2015.
  6. ^ a b "EWN contracts a new Jerm". Eyewitness News. 9 November 2012. Retrieved 13 July 2017. Jerm, whose real name is Jeremy Nell, says he started drawing cartoons after he 'flunked art and sculpture' at university.
  7. ^ "10 Questions for Cartoonist Jeremy Nell aka Jerm – South Africa Portfolio Travel Blog". portfoliocollection.com. Archived from the original on 1 March 2012. Retrieved 15 March 2015.
  8. ^ "Jeremy Nell ends strip, begins 'The Biggish Five' The Daily Cartoonist". dailycartoonist.com. 3 June 2008. Retrieved 15 March 2015.
  9. ^ "Marketing and Media in South Africa". bizcommunity.com. Archived from the original on 1 October 2011. Retrieved 15 March 2015.
  10. ^ Administrator. "Centre for Comic, Illustrative and Book Arts". Retrieved 15 March 2015.
  11. ^ "South African Political Cartoonist Fired for Being Political". Public Radio International. Retrieved 15 March 2015.
  12. ^ "Jeremy Nell fired from New Age because of 'political judgements or statements' The Daily Cartoonist". dailycartoonist.com. 19 October 2012. Retrieved 15 March 2015.
  13. ^ "JERM joins EWN". africartoons.com. Archived from the original on 2 April 2015. Retrieved 15 March 2015.
  14. ^ "Jerm – Inaugural Cartoon". ewn.co.za. Retrieved 15 March 2015.
  15. ^ "South African cartoonist "Jerm" joins eNCA network The Daily Cartoonist". dailycartoonist.com. 10 October 2013. Retrieved 15 March 2015.
  16. ^ "Jerm Switches Channels". africartoons.com. Archived from the original on 2 April 2015. Retrieved 15 March 2015.
  17. ^ Shortridge, Laura (July 2014). "Twitter Wars" (PDF). Rhodes Journalism Review. Rhodes University. p. 15. Retrieved 18 August 2017. It is therefore interesting to take a look at the next controversy, related directly to this one, involving Bullard, as here he found far more outspoken supporters, including previously mentioned Ivo Vegter and political cartoonist Jerm.
  18. ^ Ndlovu, Andile (9 December 2014). "Toon man's 'kak' tweet flames out". The Times. Retrieved 18 August 2017. AWARD-WINNING cartoonist Jeremy Nell was yesterday forced into an apology after his reaction to the Shrien Dewani verdict fell flat on Twitter.
  19. ^ Roberts, Scott (9 December 2014). "Cartoonist apologies for anti-gay tweet about Shrien Dewani". PinkNews. Retrieved 18 August 2017. A South African cartoonist has apologised for making anti-gay comments on Twitter in response to the Shrien Dewani verdict.
  20. ^ "Cartoonist in hot water over 'homophobic' Dewani tweet". News24. 9 December 2014. Retrieved 18 August 2017. Cape Town – A cartoonist landed in hot water on Monday evening after his offensive tweet about Shrien Dewani.[permanent dead link]
  21. ^ "Facebook shuts down cartoonist's page after Zille storm on Twitter". TimesLIVE. 5 January 2020.
  22. ^ McMichael, Christopher (9 January 2020). "A cultural war waged by a cartoonist". The Mail & Guardian. Jerm is hardly a paragon of anti-authoritarian values. Rather, he is a raging bundle of Donald Trump-style reactionary derangement yet to meet a dubious conspiracy theory or white supremacist dog whistle he doesn't like.
  23. ^ "Why We Are Happy For Jerm To Draw For Us". South African Institute of Race Relations. Archived from the original on 2 January 2019. Retrieved 25 April 2021.
  24. ^ "90th Annual Report" (PDF). The South African Institute of Race Relations. p. 6. Retrieved 25 April 2021. Policy Fellows and commissioned columnists... Jeremy Nell
  25. ^ "Jerm Archives". Daily Friend. Retrieved 25 April 2021.
  26. ^ "Institute of Race Relations". Institute of Race Relations.
  27. ^ "Comedy Club". penguinbooks.co.za. Archived from the original on 19 March 2015. Retrieved 15 March 2015.
  28. ^ "Nik Rabinowitz Joined Jerm for the Launch of Comedy Club at The Book Lounge". Penguin SA @ Books LIVE. Retrieved 15 March 2015.
  29. ^ "Jerm Warfare". penguinbooks.co.za. Archived from the original on 2 April 2015. Retrieved 15 March 2015.
  30. ^ "Book Launch: Don't Joke: A Year in Cartoons edited by Mason and Curtis". Jacana @ Books LIVE. Archived from the original on 26 May 2010. Retrieved 15 March 2015.
  31. ^ "Double Launch of Cartoon Collections Just for Kicks! and What's So Funny? at the Book Lounge". Jacana @ Books LIVE. Retrieved 15 March 2015.
  32. ^ "amaBhungane wins Vodacom's best feature award". Mail & Guardian. 7 November 2011. Retrieved 15 March 2015.
  33. ^ "TNA's Jeremy Nell wins Vodacom cartoon award". The New Age. South Africa. Archived from the original on 2 April 2015. Retrieved 15 March 2015.
  34. ^ Deepdesign. "Jeremy "Jerm" Nel". Mail & Guardian. Archived from the original on 15 March 2015. Retrieved 15 March 2015.
  35. ^ "Finalists of 2014 Standard Bank Sikuvile Journalism Awards". Retrieved 15 March 2015 – via Scribd.

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