Join us on Wednesday, March 1, 2023, from 11:30 a.m. -1:00 p.m. for our PRSA Lookout meeting!
“Some Offense Intended” Drawing for six different newspapers, Clay Bennett has won numerous awards for his work. Clay will step back from politics (although it’s impossible to avoid them entirely) and talk about his career, what he sees as a cartoonist’s role in journalism, and the reaction his work has received here in Chattanooga.
About Clay Bennett:
Born January 20, 1958 in Clinton, South Carolina. The son of a career army officer, Bennett led a nomadic life, attending ten different schools before graduating in 1976 from S.R. Butler High School in Huntsville, Alabama.
Served as editorial cartoonist for his college newspaper and managing editor of the alternative student paper while attending the University of North Alabama, where he graduated in 1980 with degrees in Art and History.
After working briefly as a staff artist for the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette and the Fayetteville (NC) Times, Bennett went on to serve as the editorial cartoonist for the St. Petersburg Times(1981-1994) and The Christian Science Monitor (1997-2007) before joining the staff of the Chattanooga Times Free Press in late 2007.
Recipient of The Pulitzer Prize for Editorial Cartooning in 2002, Bennett has earned almost every honor his profession has to offer including the Robert F. Kennedy Journalism Award (2007), the United Nations Award for Political Cartooning (2011), The National Press Foundation’s Berryman Award (2014), the John Fischetti Award (2001, 2005), the National Cartoonists Society Award for Editorial Cartoons (2002, 2017), the Sigma Delta Chi Award (2001, 2017, 2019), the Overseas Press Club Award (2005, 2007, 2017) and the National Headliner Award (1999, 2000, 2004, 2016).
Past President of the Association of American Editorial Cartoonists, Bennett is the husband of artist Cindy Procious and the father of Matt, Ben and Sarah. His work is distributed internationally by Counterpoint Licensing and Syndication.
This in-person event is scheduled for Wednesday, March 1, at the Mountain City Club from 11:30 a.m.-1 p.m.
Get your tickets on Eventbrite! Please note: you do not have to be a PRSA member to attend.