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Darrin Bell

1975

United States

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Darrin Lawrence Bell (born January 27, 1975) is a Pulitzer Prize-winning American editorial cartoonist and comic strip creator known for the syndicated satirical comic strips Candorville and Rudy Park. Bell is the first African American to have two comic strips syndicated nationally and to win a Pulitzer Prize for editorial cartooning. 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.

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