Darrin Bell

Born: 1975

Biography:

Darrin Bell is a Pulitzer Prize-winning American editorial cartoonist and comic strip creator. He is known for the syndicated comic strips Candorville and Rudy Park. He is the first African-American to have two comic strips syndicated nationally. Bell began his career in 1995 at the age of twenty as the Daily Californian's staff cartoonist, freelancing for the Opinion pages of the Los Angeles Times, San Francisco Chronicle, and Oakland Tribune. In 1997, he cocreated the comic strip Rudy Park and self-syndicated it to technology magazines. United Media launched it into newspapers in 2001. In 2003, Darrin launched his other comic strip, Candorville, in newspapers via the Washington Post Writers Group (WPWG), which also began syndicating his editorial cartoons in 2013. While WPWG still syndicates Candorville and Rudy Park, Darrin moved his editorial cartoons to King Features Syndicate in late 2018. He’s also a contributing cartoonist for the New Yorker. Bell is the author of the acclaimed book The Talk published in 2023.