Urban Trash

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Urban Trash
Author(s)	Jeremy Nell
Current status / schedule	Retired, June 28, 2008
Launch date	March 14, 2005
Syndicate(s)	independent
Genre(s)	Humor, Satire, Slapatick, Politics

Urban Trash^[1] is a satirical South African comic strip created by Jeremy Nell, originating on 14 March 2005. It focuses on the exploits of urban street life in and around South Africa, and features a regular cast of characters, and is regularly published across South Africa^[2][3], and in parts of Namibia^[4] and England^[5].

Urban Trash appears daily from Monday to Saturday, and one Sunday strip per month is created.

On May 28, 2008, Nell announced that he is retiring Urban Trash^[6][7][8][9].

Contents 1 Urban Trash 1.1 Style 2 Main characters 3 Publishing 4 External links 5 Notes

[edit] Urban Trash

[edit] Style

Urban Trash is predominantly gag-a-day humour, containing ongoing themes such as corruption, violence, drugs, and politics.

[edit] Main characters

• Frank: An entrepreneur involved in any financial venture, with almost always less-than-successful results.
• Frik: An uncultured, highly-strung alcoholic. Frik lives in, and works from, a caravan, selling fast food and such.
• Officer Koos: A corrupt and fairly incompetent police officer. Speaks with an Afrikaner accent.
• Africa: A petrol pump attendant stemming from a gang-infested background, and the uncle of the Urban Trash character Lightie.
• Christmas: A incompetent minibus taxi driver.
• Lightie: The drug-addicted nephew of Urban Trash character Africa.
• Ravi: A store owner, known for his desire to profit as much as possible.
• Melanie: Melanie (pronounced "mel-ar-nee") is a school teacher; Frik's romantic counterpart; and the only female character in the Urban Trash line-up.
• The Captain: Officer Koos' captain at the police station, whose desk is only ever visible to the reader, and known only as "Captain".

[edit] Publishing

There are no Urban Trash books yet.

[edit] External links

• Jeremy Nell speaking at a social media conference, PodCamp, in 2007.
• An interview with Nell, conducted by Zoopy.com during August 2007
• The official Urban Trash website
• Urban Trash on News24
• Urban Trash on iafrica.com
• Urban Trash at The Webcomic List
• Nell's profile at Cartoonist.co.za
• Urban Trash on IOL
• An interview with a popular South African blog, SA Rocks
• Zoopy.com awarding an Urban Trash reader with a Nintendo Wii game console, on behalf of Nell.
• The SPCA condemns an Urban Trash cartoon

[edit] Notes

1. ^ The comic strip's tagline is a play on the Afrikaans word "kak", which means "shit".
2. ^ Urban Trash is displayed on the front pages of the following news websites: Cape Argus, Daily News, Post, Pretoria News, The Mercury, The Star, IOL
3. ^ Urban Trash is regularly printed in The Times, The Big Issue, and the Witness
4. ^ Urban Trash is regularly published in The Big Issue (Namibia)
5. ^ Urban Trash is regularly published in the South African
6. ^ I’m retiring Urban Trash. | Trash Media
7. ^ Jeremy Nell ends strip, begins ‘The Biggish Five’ » The Daily Cartoonist
8. ^ New comic strip for The Big Issue
9. ^ Zoopy | Videos | Interview with cartoonist Jeremy Nell (03:10)