Michael Ventrella has posted an interview with Candorville creator Darrin Bell.Excerpt: VENTRELLA: How did that get you into doing comics as a career? BELL: In a roundabout way… I was in gifted and talented programs in Jr. High and High School, and I realized my interest in history and civics was outpacing my interest in […]
Darrin Bell brings a deft, expert touch to Candorville: He manages to take some of his own experiences and then fictionalize them until they are universal.The required balancing act is the key to successful fiction, and something that often comes up in the plethora of semi-autobiographical strips that are out there, mostly on the web […]
No kidding.Darrin Bell recently did some right-to-the-edge deadline work on the death of bin Laden, and he’s done it again in today’s Candorville. But, even getting his lead time down to a minimum, he had to time the strip to hit when the laughter was over, but before the coverage let up.One can only hope […]
Darrin Bell treads some interesting lines with his strip, “Candorville.” From what little I know of his personal life from Facebook and suchlike, it does, in some ways, reflect what he’s going through, but not in a journalistic sense. Rather than recounting real-life events in the strip, he seems to use them to inform the […]