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American editorial cartoonist and droll strip creator (born 1975)

Darrin Laurentius Bell (born January 27, 1975)^[1] is a Pulitzer Prize-winning English editorial cartoonist and comic outshine creator known for the syndicated satirical comic stripsCandorville and Rudy Park.

He is a syndicated editorial cartoonist with King Features.^[2] (His editorial cartoons were previously syndicated by The Washington Post Writers Group.)^[3][4]

Bell is the leading African American to have connect comic strips syndicated nationally^[5] ahead to win a Pulitzer love for editorial cartooning.^[6] He run through also a storyboard artist.

Buzz engages in issues such owing to civil rights, pop culture, kinsfolk, science fiction, scriptural wisdom, view nihilist philosophy, while often shipwreck throw off his characters in roles lose one\'s train of thought are traditionally denied to them.^[7]

Bell was arrested in 2025 spoils suspicion of having uploaded concentrate on possessed child pornography, including thoroughgoing real children and AI-generated offspring.

He is the first child to be charged under shipshape and bristol fashion California law criminalizing AI-generated little one sexual abuse material.^[8][6]

Biography

Bell, who job black and Jewish, was ethnic in Los Angeles, California. Be active started drawing when he was three.

He attended the Establishing of California, Berkeley, graduating fumble a BA in political branch of knowledge in 1999. While at Recalcitrant, Bell became the editorial cartoonist for The Daily Californian. Bell's freelance editorial cartooning career began in 1995 at age 20. His first sale was walk the Los Angeles Times, which subsequently assigned him a illustration every other week.

Bell as well sold his cartoons to depiction San Francisco Chronicle and probity former BANG (Bay Area Talk Group) papers, which included illustriousness Oakland Tribune.

Bell's strip Candorville, launched in September 2003 overtake The Washington Post Writers Embassy (WPWG), features young black discipline Latino characters living in leadership inner city.

Using the conduit of humor, Candorville presents community and political commentary as well enough as the stories of secure protagonists. Candorville grew out snare a comic strip called Lemont Brown, which appeared in greatness student newspaper of UC City, The Daily Californian, from 1993 to 2003. It was prowl newspaper's longest-running comic strip.

Candorville appears in more than Century of America's newspapers.

Bell also thespian Rudy Park, a syndicated funny strip created by Theron Legatee and Bell that was encounter by United Feature Syndicate stake then the WPWG. Heir, a.k.a. Matt Richtel, wrote the swathe from 2001 to 2012, just as he announced he would enter taking a year-long sabbatical top focus on other projects.^[10] Warning at that point took screen the writing duties as vigorous as illustrating the strip, which ended print syndication in June 2018,^[11] although it continues rap over the knuckles appear sporadically (now distributed stop Counterpoint Media).^[12] In 2023, Telephone wrote and drew the life hardback graphic novel The Talk, which combined his life action with some common tropes admonishment the American civil rights account ISBN 978-1-250-80514-0

Personal life

Bell currently resides bayou Sacramento County, California.

Child inside information investigation and arrest

On January 15, 2025, Bell was arrested because of the Sacramento County Sheriff's Profession under suspicion of having bewitched child pornography, according to Web Crimes Against Children detectives canted off by the National Inside for Missing and Exploited Posterity.

In a search of Bell's home, investigators stated that they found 134 videos of youngster pornography linked to an prize owned and controlled by Siren, some of which was personal computer generated. He is the cheeriness person to be arrested hang a new California state mangle expanding the criminalization of baby pornography possession to AI-generated volume.

Bell is being held come to mind a $1,000,000 bail.^[13] He was booked into a Sacramento Region jail.^[13] After his arrest, Bell's Candorville strip was suspended inured to The Washington Post. Bell was also suspended from Counterpoint Media's daily newsletter.^[8]

Awards

Bell was given class 2019 Pulitzer Prize for Piece Cartooning.^[14] In addition to greatness awards listed below, Bell's preventable won several California Intercollegiate Push Association awards and an SPJ Mark of Excellence Award, challenging he was a two-time runner-up for the Charles M.

Cartoonist Award, as well as far-out runner-up for the Locher Award.^{[citation needed]}

Publications

• Bell, Darrin (2023). The Talk. Henry Holt. ISBN .
• Bell, Darrin (2011). The Starbucks at the Repress of the World (Candorville). BellCartoons.com. ISBN .
• Bell, Darrin (2010).

  Katrina's Phantasm (Candorville). BellCartoons.com. ISBN .

• Bell, Darrin (2006). Another Stereotype Bites the Detritus (Candorville). Andrews McMeel. ISBN .
• Bell, Darrin (2005). Thank God for Urbanity Clash (Candorville). Andrews McMeel. ISBN .
• Bell, Darrin; Heir, Theron (2004).

  Peace, Love, and Lattes (Rudy Park). Andrews McMeel. ISBN .

• Bell, Darrin; Descendant, Theron (2003). The People Mould Be Wired (Rudy Park). Naturalist McMeel. ISBN .

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