Clay Jones was often sent to the principal’s office as a child for making fun of his classmates and teachers with his drawings. He discovered at a young age he had a knack for making fun of people and he decided later to make it a career and focus on those more deserving of his sarcastic rage, politicians…mostly, Republicans. He went from drawing simple Crayola caricatures of his friends in elementary school to full-sized comic books by the time he was in high school to being in the pages of Newsweek in his 20s.

His sharp satire first earned him freelance work at The Panolian in Batesville, Mississippi, where he eventually became their editorial cartoonist. Jones spent the next seven years in Mississippi working for The Panolian (1990-1995), the Daily Leader in Brookhaven (1995), and freelancing for the Mississippi Business Journal, all while self-syndicating his work across the nation from Jackson. In 1997, he accepted an offer to join the Honolulu Star-Bulletin temporarily to fill in for their staff cartoonist, Corky Trinidad, while he took a year-long sabbatical in Asia. While at the Star-Bulletin, he produced two cartoons each day, six days a week, which included one on the front page on a local issue produced in full color, while the second was in black-and-white on the editorial page. In 1998, he joined The Free Lance-Star in Fredericksburg, Virginia where he drew cartoons and produced a daily blog. He was laid off in 2012 with hundreds of other journalists at his paper and thousands of others throughout the country due to the economic downfall of the entire industry.  (complete bio here: https://claytoonz.com/bio-2/)