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Year in Review: Ben Sargent’s Loon Star State

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Ben Sargent, a bald, older white man with a bushy white beard is dressed in a suit and red bowtie, with his artistic tools, including pens, in front of him.
Ben Sargent's Loon Star State cartoon.
Loon Star State
Loon Star State, April 2016
Donald Trump looks for his brown shirts.
June 2016 Loon Star State
Loon Star State September 2016
Ben Sargent Loon Star State cartoon more lipstick donald trump Texas GOP
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Elections, Donald Trump, GOP, Rick Perry

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is the Texas Observer's staff cartoonist. He launched his career drawing editorial cartoons for the Austin American-Statesman in 1974. He was born in Amarillo into a newspaper family and learned the printing trade from age 12 and started working for the local daily as a proof runner at 14. He attended Amarillo College and received a bachelor's degree in journalism from the University of Texas at Austin in 1970. Sargent won the Pulitzer Prize for Editorial Cartooning in 1982. He has also received awards from Women in Communications, Inc., Common Cause of Texas, and Cox Newspapers. He is the author of Texas Statehouse Blues (1980) and Big Brother Blues (1984).

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