Jeremy Nell

• Alias — Jerm • Birth Name — Jeremy Talfer Nell • Born — 1979 • Birthplace — Cape Town, South Africa • Nationality — South African • Area — Cartoonist • Notable Works — Jerm Warfare • Website — jermwarfare.com

Jeremy Talfer Nell was born in 1979 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.

Nell became a cartoonist in November 2005, after being retrenched. Nell did not complete formal art training. Nell's first commercially published work and nationally syndicated comic strip Urban Trash (first published November 2005), ended 27 June 2008. 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. In 2012, Nell became the first political cartoonist for Eyewitness News. That year he cited Zapiro and Quentin Blake as being among his favourite cartoonists. In 2013, Nell became the first political cartoonist for the eNCA television network. 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. 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. 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. 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. Nell worked for the South African Institute of Race Relations's online publication The Daily Friend between 2019 and 2021. Nell joined TNT Radio in 2022 and hosts his own show. Jeremy Nell