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

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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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