Award-winning cartoonist Darrin Bell was arrested Wednesday in California for possession of child pornography, some of which police say was AI-generated.

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

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

Darrin Bell, 49, who won the 2019 Pulitzer Prize for Editorial Cartooning, was arrested Wednesday morning at his south Sacramento home by Sacramento County Sheriff’s Office investigators.