How the Trayvon Martin tragedy led to Darrin Bell’s historical editorial cartooning Pulitzer
"Candorville," by Darrin Bell, from April 2012. /"Candorville," by Darrin Bell, from April 2014. ) By Michael Cavna Michael Cavna Writer/artist for Comic Riffs, covering visual storytelling, cartoon art/illustration, comedy/satire and animation. Email Bio Follow April 15 at 4:07 PM There is a direct line between Trayvon Martin and Monday’s editorial cartooning Pulitzer.
[The Washington Post wins 3 Pulitzer Prizes; Sun Sentinel wins public-service medal for Parkland shooting coverage] His own family was part of the picture, too, when Bell decided to add editorial cartooning to his heavy schedule of creative production. His political cartoons are now syndicated by King Features.
Such violence is “personal because I’m going to have to have that talk with my baby boy in about seven or eight years, about how to behave when police are around, so as not to provoke them,” Bell told Comic Riffs in 2014. “And that’s the kind of talk a parent should only have to have with his child with regard to pit bulls.”“My mother, who’s white, had ‘the talk’ with me when I was around 6 or 7,” Bell said in 2014.
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