Year in Review: Loon Star State
The year in political cartoons from the strangest state in the union.
Since 1954
Ben Sargent 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).
The year in political cartoons from the strangest state in the union.
Senate Bill 4 is being considered by a House committee on March 15.
The so-called bathroom bill will be considered by a Senate committee on March 7.