Unhinged Leftie: Check
Hates MAGA: Check
Defends Groomers: Check
Gets caught with child porn: Check
A Trump-bashing, Pulitzer Prize-winning political cartoonist — whose illustrations have been published by the Washington Post, New Yorker and Los Angeles Times — was arrested for possession of child pornography.
Darrin Bell, the first African American to win the Pulitzer Prize for editorial cartoons, was busted Wednesday and booked in California’s Sacramento County after detectives from the Internet Crimes Against Children unit were tipped off by the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children, law enforcement officials said.
In a search of Bell’s home, detectives found 134 videos of child pornography linked to an account owned and controlled by the 49-year-old married father of four as well as computer-generated artificial intelligence child pornography, authorities said Thursday.
One troubling cartoon that Bell created was posted to his X account in 2022 and resurfaced on the social media platform after his arrest. Titled “The Groomer,” it shows an elephant-like person flashing a group of children in front of a mirrored storefront, which reflect the word “BIGOTRY” tattooed on the subject’s chest.
Bell’s more well-known illustrations have touched on politics, culture and race, and have been syndicated to major outlets around the country.
………His work has been distributed via King Features Syndicate, which handles famous cartoon strips such as “Popeye,” “Dennis the Menace” and “Beetle Bailey.”
…..Bell is currently in prison with bail set at $1 million and is expected to appear before a judge Friday.
Per the report, the authorities were tipped off by the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children.
…….Should Bell plead guilty or find himself convicted, we can all look forward to “this didn’t age well” memes.
Allegations aside, Bell’s work is what you’d expect from someone with his history: lacking in wit, the opposite of clever, and stridently and mind-numbingly pedantic.
The irony:
It’s always the ones who say you’re a Nazi because you don’t like child abuse:
Have fun in prison pervert.