Loon Star State: ‘Hail to the…’
A dark future for the Supreme Court
Ben Sargent
Ben Sargent is the Texas Observer's longtime 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).
Articles by Ben Sargent
Loon Star State: ‘Demolition Man’
The governor and his wrecking crew are coming for public schools.
Loon Star State: ‘The Above the Law Society’
Ken Paxton enters an exclusive club.
Loon Star State: ‘Stomp on It!’
The governor takes aim at free speech in Texas.
Loon Star State: Utter Fantasies!
This is fine.
Loon Star State: Hoax
This is fine.
Loon Star State: Whacked
"A man who doesn't spend time with his family can never be a real man."—Vito Corleone
Loon Star State: Rule of Law
Accountability goes down the drain, too.
Loon Star State: In Ken Paxton’s Bathroom
We don't want to know what he uses for toilet paper.