Katrina's Ghost: The Third Candorville Collection - Paperback

by Darrin Bell (Author)

The 3rd collection of Darrin Bell's comic strip "Candorville," which runs in major newspapers across the U.S. Follow the hilarious exploits of an African-American blogger, a gangsta rapper and a Latina advertising exec trying to get their piece of an American pie that might've been left out of the fridge a little too long. After one too many humorous rejections from the New Yorker, Lemont starts his own blog. But will a breaking scandal force him into the spotlight before he's ready? Will his unbelievable interviews with Hurricane Katrina survivors land him a Pulitzer, or a padded room? And why are socially-awkward Federal agents watching his every move? Meanwhile, C-Dog devises a half-dozen shameless ways to raise funds to publish his new CD. But can he kill off his newfound conscience before it destroys his misogynist street cred? And how can Susan Garcia win her promotion if she's so busy keeping an eye on her backstabbing assistant and living in denial about Lemont's life-shattering secret?

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.