Who is Darrin Bell? Cartoonist now facing child porn charges built groundbreaking body of work

[Demovictory9]

https://www.sacbee.com/news/local/article298658258.html

Who is Darrin Bell? Cartoonist now facing child porn charges built groundbreaking body of work
Bell was arrested Wednesday, Jan. 15, 2025, by Sacramento County sheriff’s investigators on suspicion of possessing child pornography.

Darrin Bell, the famed comic strip creator of “Candorville” and Pulitzer Prize-winning cartoonist, now faces child pornography charges in Sacramento. Arraignment is set for Friday in Sacramento Superior Court. The Sacramento-based cartoonist, arrested Wednesday by Sacramento County sheriff’s detectives following a months-long investigation, faces an uncertain future. But the arrest of Bell, 49, a married father of four children, stuns amid a groundbreaking career that began when a young Bell was still in college, drawing cartoons for the Daily Californian at UC
Berkeley.

Candorville was syndicated by the Washington Post Writers Group three times a week beginning in 2003 before moving to King Features, a division of Hearst, in 2019. With his earlier “Rudy Park,” Bell, who is Black and Jewish, was the first Black cartoonist to have two nationally syndicated strips. At its height, Candorville ran in about 300 newspapers nationwide. The popular strip ran Sundays in The Sacramento Bee from 2021 to April 2023.

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[Blue_Tires]

1. Jesus Fucking Christ... Is this for real?!

[Demovictory9]

2. Unfortunately...yes..AI generated child porn

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/01/16/us/darrin-bell-arrest-child-pornography.html




Darrin Bell, Pulitzer-Winning Cartoonist, Faces Child Pornography Charges
More than 100 videos of child sex abuse material, some of which was computer generated, have been connected to Mr. Bell, 49, according to the authorities.



Darrin
Darrin Bell, a Pulitzer Prize-winning cartoonist, was arrested in California on Wednesday on charges that he possessed more than 100 videos of child pornography, some of which was computer-generated, according to the authorities.

Investigators connected Mr. Bell, 49, to an online account that had shared 134 files of child sex abuse, the Sacramento County Sheriff’s Office said in a news release. The authorities served a search warrant at Mr. Bell’s home on Wednesday morning and found more child pornography videos, including some generated using artificial intelligence, the sheriff’s office said.

Mr. Bell, who was taken into custody after the search, is being held at the Sacramento County Main Jail in lieu of $1 million bail. He was charged with two felonies related to possession of child sex abuse material, according to jail records. It was not immediately clear if he had a lawyer, and no one responded to a call to his phone on Thursday afternoon.

This is the first time that the authorities in Sacramento County have charged someone with possession of computer-generated child sex abuse material under an amended state law that made possessing such material a criminal offense starting on Jan. 1.

[Blue_Tires]

8. I've been reading his strips for years...

I know Bell has the presumption of innocence until proven guilty, but this doesn't look good...

Is it too much to hope that authorities start taking a closer look at Donnie's bromance with Epstein?

[MagickMuffin]

12. "online account that had shared 134 files of child sex abuse"

So

Are they arresting those others who were sharing these files as well?

It appears they have evidence of others viewing these files. Go after all of them, and those that they shared with. You could bring down a huge pedo ring by arresting everyone who is sharing these files.

[GP6971]

15. Pizza express is on the way!!

[MagickMuffin]

17. From my understanding it was both, real children and AI generated

So

Even if it was all AI or CGI, Do you think it makes a difference who’s viewing these files?

Do you think it’s okay because no real children were involved?

I have a feeling those who are watching and getting off on them, could act on those urges in real live.

If you’ve been raped as a child it’s hard to accept this behavior.

[MagickMuffin]

19. Well there is a law against child pornography

They only go to prison if they act upon those urges. Otherwise they can think about raping children all day long or watching kid on kid porn, think about it forever and ever if that is the desired result of watching this kind of smut.

[MagickMuffin]

20. There was an art exhibit here in Fort Worth that got raided

Because of the nature of the photos by Sally Mann. I don’t have an issue with those photos, however, they are not sexual in nature. They show innocence of childhood.


If they depicted sexual content then I would have a problem with it.


Painting naked children isn’t a show stopper for me either, but if depicting them in a sexual manner then I have an issue if they publicly show them.

[yaesu]

26. Why not go after the AI billionaires who got tRump elected, their product was used to produce child porn. nt

[GP6971]

25. Well Hello Sunshine!! How's your day going so far??

Your usual order OK?

[Hekate]

3. Shit. Shitshitshit. He's a monumental talent who I've followed for years. Shit.

[Demovictory9]

5. I am sorry

[Hekate]

7. Not your fault. It's just wtf goes wrong with people?

Currently I am avoiding finding what Neil Gaiman has done to upset a trans friend of mine so much. Mountains of talent and he can’t keep his zipper up? Or whatever it was? I’m not a fan of all his books, but the ones I do like are stunning in their depth and perceptiveness.

Lest you think I’m cowardly for not coming to grips — at the moment I am on overwhelm over what looks to be the demise of American democracy, and the fires just south of where I live that have taken out a gigantic chunk of Los Angeles.

And this just makes me so angry.

[obamanut2012]

10. You need to read what Gaiman did -- it was rape, and physicalyl and emotionally brutal rape

Some rapes were of his young son's babysitter, and Gaiman raped the woman in front of teh kid.

His ex Amanda Palmer helped groom young woman for Gaiman. Read the New York/Vulture article. It is much more than him not jkeeping his zipper up.

[Hekate]

22. Just what I wanted before breakfast

[Skittles]

4. sick

[Celerity]

6. Fucking paedo. Lock him up.

[obamanut2012]

9. He lives in my city, and this was all over the local news and subreddits early yesterday morning

Someone is his neighbor, and they blitzed him so he didn't know they were coming.

I have been at local events with him, this is really devastating to a lot of folks in Sac.