Jeremy Nell Explained

Alias:Jerm
Birth Name:Jeremy Talfer Nell
Birth Place:Cape Town, South Africa
Nationality:South African
Area:Cartoonist
Notable Works:Jerm Warfare

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

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

Career

Nell became a cartoonist in November 2005, after being retrenched.[4] [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.[7] [8] [9]

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.[10] [11]

In 2012, Nell became the first political cartoonist for Eyewitness News.[12] [13] That year he cited Zapiro and Quentin Blake as being among his favourite cartoonists.[14]

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

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]

External links

Notes and References

  1. News: Facebook shuts down cartoonist's page after Zille storm on Twitter . Times Live.
  2. Web site: 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) . MPhil . University of Stellenbosch . 1 June 2017 . "Jeremy Talfer Nell (born 1979), and Zapiro are carrying on the work of the liberal cartoonist..." . 53 .
  4. Web site: 10 Questions for Cartoonist Jeremy Nell aka Jerm – South Africa Portfolio Travel Blog. portfoliocollection.com. 15 March 2015. https://web.archive.org/web/20120301101817/http://travelblog.portfoliocollection.com/Blog/10-Questions-for-Cartoonist-Jeremy-Nell-aka-Jerm. 1 March 2012. dead.
  5. Web site: Game Changer: Jeremy 'Jerm' Nell . Men's Health. 15 March 2015.
  6. Web site: EWN contracts a new Jerm. Eyewitness News. 13 July 2017. 9 November 2012. Jerm, whose real name is Jeremy Nell, says he started drawing cartoons after he 'flunked art and sculpture' at university..
  7. Web site: Jeremy Nell ends strip, begins 'The Biggish Five' The Daily Cartoonist. dailycartoonist.com. 3 June 2008. 15 March 2015.
  8. Web site: Marketing and Media in South Africa . https://web.archive.org/web/20111001041915/http://www.bizcommunity.com/PressOffice/PressRelease.aspx?i=119298&ai=26618 . dead . 1 October 2011 . bizcommunity.com . 15 March 2015 .
  9. Web site: Centre for Comic, Illustrative and Book Arts. Administrator. 15 March 2015.
  10. Web site: South African Political Cartoonist Fired for Being Political. Public Radio International. 15 March 2015.
  11. Web site: Jeremy Nell fired from New Age because of 'political judgements or statements' The Daily Cartoonist. dailycartoonist.com. 19 October 2012. 15 March 2015.
  12. Web site: JERM joins EWN . africartoons.com . 15 March 2015 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20150402143254/http://africartoons.com/story/9420 . 2 April 2015 .
  13. Web site: Jerm – Inaugural Cartoon. ewn.co.za. 15 March 2015.
  14. Web site: The end of freedom of speech? The cartoonist's plight.... News24. 17 August 2017. 14 December 2012.
  15. Web site: South African cartoonist "Jerm" joins eNCA network The Daily Cartoonist. dailycartoonist.com. 10 October 2013. 15 March 2015.
  16. Web site: Jerm Switches Channels . africartoons.com . 15 March 2015 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20150402144120/http://africartoons.com/story/11719 . 2 April 2015 .
  17. Shortridge . Laura . July 2014. 15. Twitter Wars . Rhodes Journalism Review . . 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. News: Ndlovu. Andile. Toon man's 'kak' tweet flames out. 18 August 2017. The Times. 9 December 2014. AWARD-WINNING cartoonist Jeremy Nell was yesterday forced into an apology after his reaction to the Shrien Dewani verdict fell flat on Twitter..
  19. Web site: Roberts. Scott. Cartoonist apologies for anti-gay tweet about Shrien Dewani. PinkNews. 18 August 2017. 9 December 2014. A South African cartoonist has apologised for making anti-gay comments on Twitter in response to the Shrien Dewani verdict..
  20. Web site: Cartoonist in hot water over 'homophobic' Dewani tweet. News24. 18 August 2017. 9 December 2014. Cape Town – A cartoonist landed in hot water on Monday evening after his offensive tweet about Shrien Dewani..
  21. News: Facebook shuts down cartoonist's page after Zille storm on Twitter . TimesLIVE . 5 January 2020 . en-ZA.
  22. News: McMichael . Christopher . A cultural war waged by a cartoonist . The Mail & Guardian . 9 January 2020 . en-ZA. 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. Web site: Why We Are Happy For Jerm To Draw For Us. South African Institute of Race Relations . 25 April 2021 . https://web.archive.org/web/20190102180918/https://irr.org.za/media/why-we-are-happy-for-jerm-to-draw-for-us-rational-standard . 2 January 2019 . en-gb.
  24. Web site: 90th Annual Report . The South African Institute of Race Relations . 25 April 2021 . 6 . "Policy Fellows and commissioned columnists... Jeremy Nell".
  25. Web site: Jerm Archives . Daily Friend . 25 April 2021 . en-ZA.
  26. Web site: Institute of Race Relations. Institute of Race Relations.
  27. Web site: Comedy Club . penguinbooks.co.za . 15 March 2015 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20150319022413/http://penguinbooks.co.za/book/comedy-club/9780143539162 . 19 March 2015 .
  28. Web site: Nik Rabinowitz Joined Jerm for the Launch of Comedy Club at The Book Lounge. Penguin SA @ Books LIVE. 15 March 2015.
  29. Web site: Jerm Warfare . penguinbooks.co.za . 15 March 2015 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20150402103021/http://penguinbooks.co.za/book/jerm-warfare/9780143538431 . 2 April 2015 .
  30. Web site: Book Launch: Don't Joke: A Year in Cartoons edited by Mason and Curtis . Jacana @ Books LIVE. 15 March 2015. https://web.archive.org/web/20100526132514/http://jacana.book.co.za/blog/2009/12/02/book-launch-dont-joke-a-year-in-cartoons-edited-by-mason-and-curtis/. 26 May 2010. dead.
  31. Web site: Double Launch of Cartoon Collections Just for Kicks! and What's So Funny? at the Book Lounge . Jacana @ Books LIVE. 15 March 2015.
  32. Web site: amaBhungane wins Vodacom's best feature award. Mail & Guardian. 7 November 2011. 15 March 2015.
  33. Web site: TNA's Jeremy Nell wins Vodacom cartoon award . The New Age. South Africa . 15 March 2015 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20150402160742/http://www.thenewage.co.za/mobi/Detail.aspx?NewsID=30123&CatID=1008 . 2 April 2015 .
  34. Web site: Jeremy "Jerm" Nel. Deepdesign. Mail & Guardian. 15 March 2015. https://web.archive.org/web/20150315230411/http://ysa2012.mg.co.za/jeremy-jerm-nel/. 15 March 2015. dead.
  35. Web site: Finalists of 2014 Standard Bank Sikuvile Journalism Awards. Scribd. 15 March 2015.

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