Darrin Bell, freelancer

Darrin Bell, recipient of the 2016 Berryman Award for Editorial Cartooning, the 2015 RFK Award for editorial cartooning, and UC Berkeley's 2015 Daily Californian Alumni of the Year Award, began his career in 1995 at the age of 20. While serving as the Daily Cal's staff cartoonist, he began freelancing to the Opinion pages of the Los Angeles Times, San Francisco Chronicle, and the Oakland Tribune. In 1997, he co-created the comic strip "Rudy Park" and self-syndicated it to technology magazines. United Media launched it into newspapers in 2001. In 2003, Darrin launched his other comic strip "Candorville" into newspapers via the Washington Post Writers Group, which also began syndicating his editorial cartoons in 2013. While WPWG still syndicates Candorville and Rudy Park, Darrin moved his editorial cartoons to King Features Syndicate in late 2018. He's also a contributing cartoonist for the New Yorker. Darrin lives with his wife and two children in California.