成人快手

In 2019, artist Darrin Bell won the Pulitzer Prize for Editorial Cartooning, becoming first African-American to win the prestigious award. He is the creator of the syndicated comic strips Candorville and Rudy Park, and he is a contributing cartoonist for the New Yorker.

His latest work, The Talk, is a graphic novel about his his own experiences with prejudice. He tells Niki Bedi how a conversation with his white, Jewish mother at the age of six would become a recurring thread throughout his life.

"She said, the world is different for me and my brother than it is for my white friends. That police, if they saw my white friends playing with water guns they would see nothing but pure innocence...but if they saw me they would look at me as if I was older, they would see me as a threat and I might even get shot," says Darrin.

One day, while Darrin was playing with his water pistol on the way to the stop, his mother's warning came horrifyingly close to home.

"I knelt down to refill the water gun in a puddle and I heard somebody say 'Drop the weapon!'. I looked up and saw a policeman," says Darrin.

(Photo: Cartoon illustration of a boy filling up a water pistol in a puddle. Credit: Darrin Bell)

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