Posted on 01/16/2025 7:44:28 AM PST by DFG
A Pulitzer Prize-winning cartoonist with Bay Area ties has been arrested in Sacramento County on suspicion of child pornography.
Darrin Bell, 49, a famed cartoonist who got his start at UC Berkeley, was arrested Wednesday and booked into the Sacramento County jail on possession of child porn, according to Internet Crimes Against Children detectives who were tipped off by the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children.
In a search of Bell's home, investigators found 134 videos of child pornography linked to an account owned and controlled by Bell as well as computer generated/artificial intelligence child pornography, authorities said.
Bell once drew cartoons for the Daily Californian and contributed to the San Francisco Chronicle as well as other local outlets. In 2019, he was awarded a Pulitzer Prize for editorial cartooning and became the first African American man to receive the honor.
Bell has said the goal of his work is for people to be more respectful of human dignity.
The arrest is the first by Sacramento Valley ICAC in which possession of computer generated/AI child pornography was charged against the suspect. A change in the law took effect with the new year making AI-generated child pornography a criminal offense.
Bell is being held on $1 million bail and is scheduled to appear in court Friday.
Another San Francisco liberal breaks the color barrier.
"In 2019, Darrin Bell became the first Black person to win the Pulitzer Prize for editorial cartooning, and his nationally syndicated comic strip Candorville will mark its 20th anniversary later this year.
It’s nearly impossible to appreciate another person’s truth, but if a brilliant storyteller offers to light the way, take him up on it,” wrote Doonesbury creator Garry Trudeau, in a blurb for The Talk. “Bell is the Ta-Nehisi Coates of comics.
The Pulitzer jury called his work “beautiful and daring.” His drawings are fiercely gestural, full of coiled energy that explodes off the page. They pack a punch, then leave you thinking."
Bell won for a set of 19 panels, many concerning race, or Trump—then in the middle of his presidency—or race and Trump."
Is he still...'beautiful and daring'?
(Spit)...Liberalism IS gateway mental illness.
lefty cartoonist starts trolling the playground, stopped by the colonel:
“I think you’re some kind of deviated prevert. ... If you try any preversions in there I’ll blow your head off.”
Col. Bat Guano
Bring back “burning at the stake”.
Unless they're kids, apparently.
Sounds like he got his start at the grade schools, not college.
I was hoping it was Gary Trudeau.
Right now.
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