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Ben Sargent (born November 26, 1948) is a retired[1] Americaneditorial cartoonist. He began drawingeditorial cartoons for theAustin American-Statesman in 1974 and retired in 2009.[2] Hiscartoons are also distributed nationally byUniversal Press Syndicate.
Sargent was born inAmarillo, Texas, into anewspaper family. He learned the printing trade from age twelve and started working for the local daily as a proof runner at fourteen. He attendedAmarillo College and received aBachelor of Journalism degree from theUniversity of Texas at Austin in 1970.
Sargent won thePulitzer Prize for Editorial Cartooning in 1982. He has also received awards fromWomen in Communications, Inc.,Common Cause of Texas, andCox Newspapers.
He is the author ofTexas Statehouse Blues (1980) andBig Brother Blues (1984).
Sargent is married to Diane Holloway, former television critic for theAustin American-Statesman; Sargent and Holloway both retired from the paper in March 2009. They have two children, Sam and Elizabeth.
In a profile published in the January 2005 issue ofThe Good Life magazine, Sargent stated, "As a newspaper journalist, you're professionally obligated to be fair, accurate, complete and balanced. But there are two pages in the back of the paper where we're obligated to be fair, accurate and complete—but we don't have to be 'balanced.' I'm not a pollster. To me, you're obligated as an opinion journalist to express your views no matter what the politics of the day. If you don't, then people will say, 'Why should I read what this guy's saying? He doesn't even know where he stands?' That makes your position as an opinion journalist kind of useless."
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