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A PULITZER Prize-winning cartoonist celebrated for his anti-Donald Trump drawings has been arrested on child pornography charges.
Cops said that Darrin Bell, 49, was found to have over 100 sick images of child sexual abuse and AI-generated child porn.
Bell, a dad who also contributed to the Washington Post, was arrested on Wednesday by the Sacramento County Sheriff’s Office in California, authorities told NBC affiliate KNTV.
Deputies started investigating the abhorrent alleged criminal after they found an account that had uploaded 18 files with child sexual abuse material to an online service.
After doing some more digging, they determined that Bell owned the account and eventually linked a mountain of other stomach-churning videos to him, cops said.
They raided his home before taking him to the Sacramento County Main Jail, where he’s being held on a massive $1 million bail.
His is the first arrest since distributing AI-generated images of child sexual abuse material became a crime in Sacramento on January 1.
Bell is a celebrated cartoonist who was worshipped by mainstream media outlets for his ghoulish depictions of President Donald Trump.
In 2023, he published a graphic novel called The Talk, which was a memoir on “police brutality and anti-Blackness in twenty-first-century Amerikkka,” according to the description.
It was inspired by outrage over the murder of George Floyd and was dedicated to his son, he told ABC News in May.
In that interview, he explained why parents should “take away some innocence” from children by talking about racial issues in America.
He said, “People can mistreat” kids “not because of anything that they’ve done but because of what they look like.”
The artist warned parents to have these hard conversations with children so they can recognize abuse if they ever experience it.
According to his LinkedIn account, Bell is a self-employed artist who publishes his work with King Features.
He worked as a syndicated cartoonist for the Washington Post for nearly 20 years.
Bell was active on social media and posted a weekly editorial cartoon on his Substack account called Darrin Bell’s Disobey in Advance.
His most recent cartoon was blasting Republicans for their response to the deadly fires in Los Angeles.
In the drawing, a man with an elephant-shaped hockey mask and a Nazi-inspired band on his arm is pointing to a fire on a map of America.
The eerie character blamed “diversity, equity and inclusion,” and “progressive policies” for the disaster.
However, the drawing suggests this is a loosely disguised attack on LGBT+ and Black people.
“Republicans and their not-so-clever euphemisms,” Bell wrote in the description.
