Ben Sargent

Amarillo | Cartoonist

Mr. Sargent is a widely syndicated, Pulitzer-winning editorial cartoonist. He drew for the daily Austin American-Statesman from 1974 through 2009, and previously worked as a political reporter covering the Texas Capitol for the Corpus Christi Caller-Times, Long News Service and the UPI, and originally grew up in a newspaper family. His cartoons lampoon many of our foibles and failings, but return to the themes of greed, sloth, and shortsightedness as found in the public’s and politicians’ views and actions regarding air pollution, climate change, flooding, lumbering, energy use and sources, population, water quality, mass transit, roads and development.