A cartoonist famous for calling attention to racism and criticizing Republicans was arrested on suspicion of possessing child pornography, the Sacramento County Sheriff said Thursday.
The Sacramento Bee said Darrin Bell, the Pulitzer Prize-winning cartoonist, made history as “the first Black cartoonist to have two nationally syndicated strips,” including Candorville, “which features three childhood friends of color and their daily lives in the inner city.” Now he has made history again with his arrest for alleged possession of artificial intelligence-generated child abuse material, just days after a California law banning AI porn went into effect.
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For years, the Washington Post Writers Group syndicated Bell’s cartoons in the Post and other papers. He also published cartoons in the New Yorker, Los Angeles…
