Darrin Bell | |
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Born | Los Angeles, California, U.S. | January 27, 1975
Area(s) | Editorial cartoonist, comic strip writer/artist |
Notable works | Candorville Rudy Park |
Spouse(s) | Makeda Rashidi |
Darrin Bell (born January 27, 1975)[1] is a Pulitzer Prize-winning American editorial cartoonist and comic strip creator known for the syndicated comic strips Candorville and Rudy Park. He is a syndicated editorial cartoonist with King Features.[2] (His editorial cartoons were formerly syndicated by The Washington Post Writers Group.)[3][4]
Bell is the first African American to have two comic strips syndicated nationally.[citation needed] He is also a storyboard artist. Bell engages in issues such as civil rights, pop culture, family, science fiction, scriptural wisdom, and nihilist philosophy, while often casting his characters in roles that are traditionally denied to them.[citation needed]