Year in Review: Loon Star State

The year in political cartoons from the strangest state in the union.

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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.
Elections, Trump, GOP, Gerrymandering
Post-election  Ben Sargent
obsessed, bathroom, loon star
February 1, 2017  Ben Sargent
March 15, 2017  Ben Sargent
June 19, 2017  Ben Sargent
July 18, 2017  Ben Sargent
August 10, 2017  Ben Sargent
August 23, 2017  Ben Sargent
September 6, 2017  Ben Sargent
September 28, 2017  Ben Sargent
December 11, 2017  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).

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