Candorville is a syndicated newspaper comic strip written and illustrated by Darrin Bell, a former editorial cartoonist, and the only African-American cartoonist to ever have two different comic strips in syndication concurrently. Candorville was launched in September of 2003, and features young Black and Latino characters trying to make their dreams come true in the Inner City. Although the humor seems to have universal/mainstream appeal. Candorville presents social and political commentary, and in that respect it is similar to Doonesbury, Bloom County, The Boondocks and La Cucaracha. In the entertainment and news industries, syndication is a method of making content available to a range of outlets simultaneously. ... This article is about the comic strip, the sequential art form as published in newspapers and on the Internet. ... Darrin Bell is an African-American cartoonist who writes and illustrates the syndicated comic strip Candorville, and illustrates the comic strip Rudy Park. ... An editorial cartoonist, also known as a political cartoonist, is an artist who draws cartoons that contain some level of political or social commentary. ... An African American (also Afro-American or Black American, or black) is a member of an ethnic group in the United States whose ancestors, usually in predominant part, were indigenous to Africa. ... Syndication may mean: television syndication, where individual stations buy programs outside of the network system print syndication, where individual newspapers or magazines license news articles, columns, or comic strips web syndication, where web feeds make a portion of a web site available to other sites or individual subscribers radio syndication... Look up September in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. ... 2003 (MMIII) was a common year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Black is a color with several subtle differences in meaning. ... // Etymology The word Latino (feminine Latina) derives from Latin (the adjectives latinus, latina), originally referring to Latium, the area of Rome, by aitiology derived from a king of the name Latinus. ... The term inner-city is often applied to the poorer parts at the centre of a major city. ... Doonesbury was featured on the cover of the Feb. ... The cover of the first best-selling Bloom County collection, featuring several of its main characters: (left to right) Milo Bloom, Opus, Cutter John, Bill the Cat, Michael Binkley, Portney and Hodge Podge. ... For the term, see Boondock. ... La Cucaracha (The Cockroach) is a traditional Mexican folk song that became popular after the Mexican revolution. ...

Candorville grew out of a comic strip called Lemont Brown, which appeared in the student newspaper of UC Berkeley, "The Daily Californian," from 1993 to 2003. It still appears in the Daily Californian under its new title, "Candorville," and is that newspaper's longest-running comic strip in history. During college, Bell also created editorial cartoons for the Daily Californian, and became one of the youngest freelance cartoonists to ever work regularly for the Los Angeles Times, and several other newspapers. Darrin Bell also illustrates the syndicated comic strip Rudy Park, which is syndicated by United Media to 80 newspapers and websites. Candorville appears in most of America's largest newspapers. It appears in Spanish in Spanish-language newspapers where it is translated by the author's wife, Laura Bustamante. In the San Francisco Chronicle, Candorville appears on the Opinion page on Mondays. The University of California, Berkeley (also known as Cal, UC Berkeley, UCB, or simply Berkeley) is a prestigious, public, coeducational university situated in the foothills of Berkeley, California to the east of San Francisco Bay, overlooking the Golden Gate and its bridge. ... The Daily Californian (or Daily Cal) is an independent, student-run newspaper that serves the University of California, Berkeley campus and its surrounding community. ... A freelancer or (freelance worker) is a self-employed person working in a profession or trade in which full-time employment is also common. ... The Los Angeles Times (also known as the LA Times) is a daily newspaper published in Los Angeles, California and distributed throughout the western United States. ... United Media is large editorial column and comic strip newspaper syndication service based in the United States, owned by The E.W. Scripps Company. ... The front page of the English Wikipedia Website. ... America is usually meant as either: the Americas, the lands of the Western hemisphere, usually subdivided into North America and South America the United States of America See also: Americas (terminology), Use of the word America, and Use of the word American America may also refer to: America, Netherlands in... The San Francisco Chronicle, the self-described Voice of the West, is Northern Californias largest newspaper. ... Monday is considered either the first or the second day of the week, between Sunday and Tuesday. ...

Main Characters

• Lemont Brown is the main character. A talented young Black writer, Lemont began regularly submitting articles to The New Yorker, and was regularly rejected in humiliating fashion. After many months of his friend Susan Garcia suggesting Lemont take control of his life, he decided to stop being rejected and instead started his own blog. Lemont works at Pigville Pork Burgers where George W. Bush once held a televised town hall meeting (in which Lemont humiliated himself while trying to ask a tough question). In a notable story-line, Lemont interviewed a Hurricane Katrina survivor for his blog. Lemont is thoughtful, responsible, clever, sarcastic, and he cares both about the world and about his small circle of friends, whom he's known all his life. Lemont, like many in Generation X, was abandoned by his father as a child but managed to grow up into a decent, hard-working man.
• Susan Garcia is Lemont's best friend. An upwardly-mobile Latina who works as a top executive at an advertising agency, Susan is ambitious, straight-forward, and maybe a little too wrapped up in herself. She is constantly frustrated that Lemont doesn't seem to know how to make his dream a reality, as she did. She has a sister who changed her name from Esperanza to Hope in order to appear to be Anglo instead of Mexican. Susan has known Lemont all her life and they have been platonic friends, but they seem to have deeper romantic feelings for one another that neither one will acknowledge. When Lemont frustrates her, she occasionally lapses into Spanish, like Ricky Ricardo. Susan's nemesis is her assistant at work, Dick Fink, who seems to sabotage her and obviously wants her job. Her clueless and ethically-challenged boss is Mr. Fitzhugh (possibly an homage to the philosopher George Fitzhugh who argued in favor of slavery as the natural and necessary state of Black people). Mr. Fitzhugh often makes small changes to Susan's advertising campaigns, to make them more dishonest. He once wore a t-shirt to work that said "We invaded Iraq and all I got was this lousy $25 million contract."
• Clyde, (a.k.a. C-Dog) is Lemont's alter ego. The yin to Lemont's yang. Like Lemont, Clyde grew up in a broken home. But Clyde is irresponsible, lazy, and he blames everyone else for his own shortcomings. He seems to purposely validate every stereotype about Black men, for which Lemont regularly scolds him. He seems stupid at times, but other times it seems as if his "stupidity" is an act he puts on just to thumb his nose to the world. Clyde dresses and acts like a thug, and very well may be one. But the only time he's been seen stealing so far, it has been from Lemont. He gets caught, but perhaps it's because he wants to get caught. He castigates Lemont for "acting White" whenever Lemont reads a book or crosses the street at a crosswalk, and he jealously guards his thuggish street reputation. He once crossed the street at a crosswalk, for which his other friends called him a sellout. To get back in their good graces, C-Dog put a recliner in the middle of a busy street and went to sleep on it during rush hour, for which he was sent to jail. C-Dog is an aspiring rapper, and is unemployed. He has an illegitimate business selling fake Botox injections out of his trenchcoat in a dark alley. Curiously, months after C-Dog began that business, several real-life incidents occurred where women died after receiving fake Botox injections.

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Supporting Characters

• Reverend Wilfred is a formerly-liberal Democratic reverend in the mold of Al Sharpton, but after receiving almost $1 million from the White House Office of Faith-Based Initiatives, the good Reverend suddenly did a 180 and became an ultra-conservative Bush supporter who uses his pulpit to preach against the evils of liberalism.
• Bus Stop Guy is a neocon who goes through great logical contortions to rationalize current events, such as the pushback against stem-cell research, the Iraq War, driving an SUV, the pushback against gay marriage, and many other issues.
• Homeless Dudes often appear living in alleys, cardboard boxes and on the sidewalks. They discuss the economy, mostly, and are usually ignored by everyone, including the compassionate main characters Lemont and Susan.
• Past and Future Lemont Lemont is occasionally visited in his dreams by both past and future versions of himself. One version, who visits him from the past, is six or seven years old. The other version is 70-80 years old and speaks very cryptically. Once, before interviewing the Hurricane Katrina victim, Lemont was visted by himself from one week later, warning him to do something that he ended up not doing. A few times, the strip has been set in 1982 and past Lemont is the main character, who receives visits from present Lemont warning him to stay away from girls, and telling him to buy only certain comic books which will appreciate in value by the present day.

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Cartoon collections

As of 2006, one collection of the strip has been published in book form. 2006 (MMVI) is a common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. ...

• Candorville: Thank God for Culture Clash (2005)

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External links

• Official website
• Candorville at Comics.com
• Official author website
• Rudy Park website
• Candorville book collection