Sacramento County deputies arrested the nationally syndicated cartoonist at his south Sacramento home on Wednesday.

Darrin Bell, the famed comic strip creator of “Candorville” and Pulitzer Prize-winning cartoonist, is based in Sacramento.

Pulitzer Prize winning cartoonist Darrin Bell was arrested Wednesday after authorities found a cache of child pornography, some of it AI-generated.

Darrin Bell, a renowned Pulitzer-winning cartoonist, was arrested in California for possessing over 100 videos of child pornography, including AI-generated material. Learn more about his shocking arrest and the implications.

Pulitzer Prize-winning editorial cartoonist Darrin Bell was arrested on suspicion of possessing child sex abuse videos, the Sacramento County Sheriff’s Office said Thursday.

Darrin Bell was the first person to be arrested under a California law which criminalizes the possession of AI-generated sex abuse material.

The sheriff's office says he is the first person to be charged in the county under an amended California law which makes child sex abuse material generated by artificial intelligence illegal.

More than 100 videos of child sex abuse material, some of which was computer generated, have been connected to Mr. Bell, 49, according to the authorities.

The investigation that led to Darrin Bell's arrest started after an individual uploaded 18 files containing child sexual abuse material to an online service.