  n_bell > bell, who is black and jewish, was born in los angeles, california.[5] he started drawing when he was three. he attended the university of california, berkeley, graduating with a ba in political science in 1999. while at cal, bell became the editorial cartoonist for the daily californian. bell's freelance editorial cartooning career began in 1995 at age 20. his first sale was to the los angeles times, which subsequently assigned him a cartoon every other week. bell also sold his cartoons to the san francisco chronicle and the former bang (bay area news group) papers, which included the oakland tribune. > bell's strip candorville, launched in september 2003 by the washington post writers group (wpwg), features young black and latino characters living in the inner city. using the vehicle of humor, candorville presents social and political commentary as well as the stories of its protagonists. candorville grew out of a comic strip called lemont brown, which appeared in the student newspaper of uc berkeley, the daily californian, from 1993 to 2003. it was that newspaper's longest-running comic strip. candorville appears in more than 100 of america's newspapers.[5] > bell also drew rudy park, a syndicated comic strip created by theron heir and bell that was distributed by united feature syndicate and then the wpwg. heir, a.k.a. matt richtel, wrote the strip from 2001 to 2012, when he announced he would be taking a year-long sabbatical to focus on other projects.[6] bell at that point took over the writing duties as well as illustrating the strip, which ended print syndication in june 2018,[7] although it continues to appear sporadically (now distributed by counterpoint media).[8] in 2023, bell wrote and drew the autobiographical hardback graphic novel the talk, which combined his life story with some common tropes of the american civil rights narrative isbn 978-1-250-80514-0
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