Clay Jones is a Texas-born, Virginia-based political cartoonist. He began his career in local weekly newspapers in 1990. In 1998, he was hired by the Free Lance-Star in Fredericksburg, Virginia, where he remained until 2012. He signed with Creators Syndicate in 2000 to distribute his work nationally. He ended his working relationship with Creators in 2013 to create his own syndication, Claytoonz. In 2019, he began drawing a weekly cartoon for CNN Opinion’s weekly newsletter, Provoke/Persuade. In 2022, Jones won the Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights Journalism Award and the Sigma Delta Chi from the Society of Professional Journalists for his cartooning, as well as other various awards in recent years.
