At this year’s Pulitzer Prizes, the first African American to have two nationally syndicated cartoons won big.
Darrin Bell, a freelancer whose work is distributed by the Washington Post Writers Group, was awarded the Pulitzer for editorial cartoons. The prize was given for his “blunt and beautiful editorial cartoons” criticizing the policies of President Donald Trump, particularly as they relate to “disenfranchised communities” and “lies, hypocrisy and fraud.”
That’s @dailycal alumnus @DarrinBellArt giving a speech on his #Pulitzer win today — my two worlds collide !! pic.twitter.com/i6ITSuam4L
— Andrea Platten (@andreaplatten) April 15, 2019
Bell is no stranger to awards.
In 2015, he won the Robert F. Kennedy Journalism Award for his cartoons about race and police violence in the United States. In 2016, he brought home the Berryman Award for cartoons that addressed xenophobia and gun violence.
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Trump and politics were the themes of this year’s editorial cartoon finalists. Ruben Bolling (also known under the pseudonym “Ken Fisher”) and Rob Rogers, both freelancers, were also considered for similar work, according to this year’s list of winners and finalists.
Below are a few examples of Bell’s work covering the Trump presidency in 2018. For more, check out his website here.
Trump fires John Kelly, but nobody seems to want to be his new Chief of Staff https://t.co/cndNIr6vCu pic.twitter.com/BJDePQzRZa
— Darrin Bell (@DarrinBellArt) December 11, 2018
Trump Doesn’t Believe Own Administration’s Climate Change Study https://t.co/vvEZEzN9hq pic.twitter.com/63mkiiEg1v
— Darrin Bell (@DarrinBellArt) November 29, 2018
Trump announces the US doesn’t care that MBS butchered Khashoggi https://t.co/jNJOVg1rnY pic.twitter.com/sv7Hv1veCj
— Darrin Bell (@DarrinBellArt) November 24, 2018
Trump says U.S. should prevent wildfires by raking forest floors https://t.co/gjB3VLorCM pic.twitter.com/urBjCGHrdN
— Darrin Bell (@DarrinBellArt) November 20, 2018
Trump skips out on traditional Veterans Day Arlington Visit https://t.co/uJDWlOdHGK pic.twitter.com/bPH0Pqp3y2
— Darrin Bell (@DarrinBellArt) November 13, 2018
Trump berates journalists and revokes Jim Acosta’s press pass https://t.co/zvuEdTpRiG pic.twitter.com/rozHFA0EAy
— Darrin Bell (@DarrinBellArt) November 12, 2018
USA Today publishes Trump op ed arguing Medicare for All would be a disaster https://t.co/XunNbWDMJ8 pic.twitter.com/hZ0L85e24E
— Darrin Bell (@DarrinBellArt) October 11, 2018
A senior Trump staffer details his “resistance” movement https://t.co/hTpa0MJqUt pic.twitter.com/mGAT1fao25
— Darrin Bell (@DarrinBellArt) September 7, 2018
— Darrin Bell (@DarrinBellArt) October 25, 2018
Michael Cohen and Paul Manafort are GUILTY https://t.co/wNdUOzyOvT pic.twitter.com/EQXTfieddO
— Darrin Bell (@DarrinBellArt) August 22, 2018
#collusion #TrumpCrimeFamily #TrumpPutin #TrumpRussiaCoverUp pic.twitter.com/IwAKBAQ7E4
— Darrin Bell (@DarrinBellArt) August 1, 2018
#TrumpLies #CohenTapes #RussianHacking #TreasonMeeting pic.twitter.com/8hVCFrJ6EG
— Darrin Bell (@DarrinBellArt) July 28, 2018
Editorial Cartoon: @realDonaldTrump tells us not to believe our own eyes https://t.co/wU5dAgQ9iH#Orwellian #propaganda #TrumpRussia #TrumpTapes #TrumpLies pic.twitter.com/Dif473ZPr5
— Darrin Bell (@DarrinBellArt) July 25, 2018
Crook. pic.twitter.com/ByW3TvmUPC
— Darrin Bell (@DarrinBellArt) June 15, 2018
#PuertoRico #HurricaneMaria #HurricaneFlorence https://t.co/cntQYjHF85 pic.twitter.com/LHmuNMidkK
— Darrin Bell (@DarrinBellArt) September 11, 2018
I must've missed the part where the memos stated "there was no collusion and no obstruction." What page was that on? pic.twitter.com/wRyq09x0NS
— Darrin Bell (@DarrinBellArt) April 20, 2018
