by Darrin Bell (Author)
The first year of the Trump presidency was a test of our national character. Did we pass? Follow the exploits of our new president and Congress as they try to repeal Obamacare, let restaurants confiscate tips from employees, hike taxes on the poor, slash them on the rich, declare the Media an "enemy of the American people," brush off a neo-Nazi march in Charlottesville, ban travel from Muslim countries, steal a Supreme Court seat, ban transgender troops from the military, privatize sacred Native American national parks, slash Medicaid, leave Puerto Rico to die after Hurricane Maria, and obstruct justice all over the place. Bonus content: Watch the new president malign women he'd allegedly sexually assaulted even as the #MeToo movement finally begins holding sexual harassers and predators accountable. "We Eat the Poor" compiles the political cartoons of 2017, created for newspapers by award-winning cartoonist Darrin Bell of the Washington Post Writers Group.
Author Biography
Editorial Cartoonist Darrin Bell creates the comic strips "Candorville" and "Rudy Park," as well as political cartoons for the Washington Post Writers Group. Before that, while studying political science at UC Berkeley, he served as the Daily Californian's staff cartoonist and freelanced cartoons to the Los Angeles Times, San Francisco Chronicle, Oakland Tribune, and other papers. His work now appears in hundreds of papers nationwide. Darrin is the recipient of the 2016 Berryman Award for Editorial Cartooning and the 2015 Robert F. Kennedy Journalism Award for Editorial Cartooning. He's a Los Angeles native who was the son of educators, the grandson of a World War II veteran, the great great grandson of former slaves, and the father of two small children. Aside from his cartooning, he's best known for talking about himself in the third person.