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Demovictory9

(34,119 posts) Thu Jan 16, 2025, 06:08 PM 14 hrs ago

Who is Darrin Bell? Cartoonist now facing child porn charges built groundbreaking body of work

https://www.sacbee.com/news/local/article298658258.html

Who is Darrin Bell? Cartoonist now facing child porn charges built groundbreaking body of work
Bell was arrested Wednesday, Jan. 15, 2025, by Sacramento County sheriff’s investigators on suspicion of possessing child pornography.

Darrin Bell, the famed comic strip creator of “Candorville” and Pulitzer Prize-winning cartoonist, now faces child pornography charges in Sacramento. Arraignment is set for Friday in Sacramento Superior Court. The Sacramento-based cartoonist, arrested Wednesday by Sacramento County sheriff’s detectives following a months-long investigation, faces an uncertain future. But the arrest of Bell, 49, a married father of four children, stuns amid a groundbreaking career that began when a young Bell was still in college, drawing cartoons for the Daily Californian at UC
Berkeley.

Candorville was syndicated by the Washington Post Writers Group three times a week beginning in 2003 before moving to King Features, a division of Hearst, in 2019. With his earlier “Rudy Park,” Bell, who is Black and Jewish, was the first Black cartoonist to have two nationally syndicated strips. At its height, Candorville ran in about 300 newspapers nationwide. The popular strip ran Sundays in The Sacramento Bee from 2021 to April 2023.

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Who is Darrin Bell? Cartoonist now facing child porn charges built groundbreaking body of work (Original Post) Demovictory9 14 hrs ago OP

Jesus Fucking Christ... Is this for real?! Blue_Tires 13 hrs ago #1

Unfortunately...yes..AI generated child porn Demovictory9 10 hrs ago #2

Shit. Shitshitshit. He's a monumental talent who I've followed for years. Shit. Hekate 8 hrs ago #3

I am sorry Demovictory9 7 hrs ago #5

Not your fault. It's just wtf goes wrong with people? Hekate 4 hrs ago #7

sick Skittles 8 hrs ago #4

Fucking paedo. Lock him up. Celerity 7 hrs ago #6

Blue_Tires

(57,315 posts)

1. Jesus Fucking Christ... Is this for real?!

Reply to Demovictory9 (Original post)

Thu Jan 16, 2025, 06:55 PM

13 hrs ago

Demovictory9

(34,119 posts)

2. Unfortunately...yes..AI generated child porn

Reply to Blue_Tires (Reply #1)

Thu Jan 16, 2025, 10:24 PM

10 hrs ago

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/01/16/us/darrin-bell-arrest-child-pornography.html

Darrin Bell, Pulitzer-Winning Cartoonist, Faces Child Pornography Charges
More than 100 videos of child sex abuse material, some of which was computer generated, have been connected to Mr. Bell, 49, according to the authorities.

Darrin
Darrin Bell, a Pulitzer Prize-winning cartoonist, was arrested in California on Wednesday on charges that he possessed more than 100 videos of child pornography, some of which was computer-generated, according to the authorities.

Investigators connected Mr. Bell, 49, to an online account that had shared 134 files of child sex abuse, the Sacramento County Sheriff’s Office said in a news release. The authorities served a search warrant at Mr. Bell’s home on Wednesday morning and found more child pornography videos, including some generated using artificial intelligence, the sheriff’s office said.

Mr. Bell, who was taken into custody after the search, is being held at the Sacramento County Main Jail in lieu of $1 million bail. He was charged with two felonies related to possession of child sex abuse material, according to jail records. It was not immediately clear if he had a lawyer, and no one responded to a call to his phone on Thursday afternoon.

This is the first time that the authorities in Sacramento County have charged someone with possession of computer-generated child sex abuse material under an amended state law that made possessing such material a criminal offense starting on Jan. 1.

Hekate

(95,610 posts)

3. Shit. Shitshitshit. He's a monumental talent who I've followed for years. Shit.

Reply to Demovictory9 (Original post)

Fri Jan 17, 2025, 12:02 AM

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Demovictory9

(34,119 posts)

5. I am sorry

Reply to Hekate (Reply #3)

Fri Jan 17, 2025, 01:13 AM

7 hrs ago

Hekate

(95,610 posts)

7. Not your fault. It's just wtf goes wrong with people?

Reply to Demovictory9 (Reply #5)

Fri Jan 17, 2025, 03:55 AM

4 hrs ago

Currently I am avoiding finding what Neil Gaiman has done to upset a trans friend of mine so much. Mountains of talent and he can’t keep his zipper up? Or whatever it was? I’m not a fan of all his books, but the ones I do like are stunning in their depth and perceptiveness.

Lest you think I’m cowardly for not coming to grips — at the moment I am on overwhelm over what looks to be the demise of American democracy, and the fires just south of where I live that have taken out a gigantic chunk of Los Angeles.

And this just makes me so angry.