Demovictory9 (34,120 posts)
Thu Jan 16, 2025, 06:08 PM
Who is Darrin Bell? Cartoonist now facing child porn charges built groundbreaking body of work
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. ...
I wonder if
Demovictory9 saw this story in our Chat Box. The timing would work.
Blue_Tires (57,325 posts)
8. I've been reading his strips for years...
Reply to Demovictory9 (Reply #2)
Fri Jan 17, 2025, 09:43 AM
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?
Classic diversion attempt, though no DU-Denizen picked it up and ran with it. IIRC, Trump's "bromance" consisted of his picture being taken with Epstein at some social event and a flight on Epstein's plane from NYC to Florida. Not that a DU-Denizen would care about evidence before demanding a fishing expedition.
Mosby (17,797 posts)
13. Its CGI, no real children were involved.
Reply to MagickMuffin (Reply #12)
Fri Jan 17, 2025, 11:08 AM
Nt.
Somebody trying to minimize reality. That reality includes the fact that some of the Child porn was with real children. An appropriate retort:
MagickMuffin (17,264 posts)
17. From my understanding it was both, real children and AI generated
Reply to Mosby (Reply #13)
Fri Jan 17, 2025, 11:28 AM
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?
Mosby clapped back and some backing-and-forthing ensued.
Hekate (95,610 posts)
3. Shit. Shitshitshit. He's a monumental talent who I've followed for years. Shit.
Reply to Demovictory9 (Original post)
Fri Jan 17, 2025, 12:02 AM
(emojis CC's SW won't display
Sympathy for the abused children and children who might be abused because of Bell is conspicuously absent.
Celerity (47,216 posts)
6. ****ing paedo. Lock him up.
Reply to Demovictory9 (Original post)
Fri Jan 17, 2025, 01:23 AM
emojis
After due process, presumably,
since Bell isn't Trump.
obamanut2012 (27,976 posts)
9. He lives in my city, and this was all over the local news and subreddits early yesterday morning
Reply to Demovictory9 (Original post)
Fri Jan 17, 2025, 10:02 AM
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.
No mention whether those "devastated" folks are abused children and/or parents of abused children. Probably fans of Bell's hysterical hatred of Rs, conservatives, and Trump. Bell's expressions of hatred were beyond the extreme of sick. Fans of his hatred deserve to be "devastated" by learning what Bell is.
