Darrin Bell, the Pulitzer Prize-winning editorial cartoonist acclaimed for his sharp takes on race, gender and President Donald Trump, has a deal with publisher Henry Holt & Company for two graphic memoirs exploring racism and his own background.
Holt says the first book, “The Talk,” due next year, will be “a graphic memoir written as a deeply personal meditation on ‘the talk’ that Black parents must have with their children about racism and the brutality that often accompanies it.”
The second, “Come Back Around To You,” will tell of “the author’s discovery of art, his bond with his beloved grandfather, a direct descendant of slaves and his complicated relationship with his father.”
Bell, 45, who also pens the syndicated comic strips Candorville and Rudy Park, won the Pulitzer for editorial cartooning in 2019, praised for addressing “issues affecting disenfranchised communities, calling out lies, hypocrisy and fraud in the political turmoil surrounding the Trump administration.”
