Darrin Bell

Pulitzer Prize-winning Editorial Cartoonist Darrin Bell, author of the upcoming graphic novel/memoir "The Talk," creates the comic strips "Candorville" and "Rudy Park," as well as political cartoons with King Features Syndicate. Before that, while studying political science at UC Berkeley, he served as the Daily Californian's staff cartoonist and freelanced cartoons to the Los Angeles Times, San Francisco Chronicle, Oakland Tribune, and other papers. His work now appears in hundreds of papers nationwide. Darrin is the recipient of the 2019 Pulitzer Prize for Editorial Cartooning, the 2016 Berryman Award for Editorial Cartooning and the 2015 Robert F. Kennedy Journalism Award for Editorial Cartooning. He's a Los Angeles native who was the son of educators, the grandson of a World War II veteran, the great great grandson of former slaves, and the father of four small children. Aside from his cartooning, he's best known for talking about himself in the third person.