Clay Jones is a self-syndicated political cartoonist whose work is distributed to newspapers and news sites across the United States and the world. He also draws a weekly cartoon for CNN Opinion's weekly newsletter, Provoke/Persuade. Clay was represented by Creators Syndicate (2000-13) until he left to start his own personal syndicate. His career began in 1990 at The Panolian, a weekly newspaper in Batesville, MS. Clay also worked for the Daily Leader in Brookhaven, MS, the Honolulu Star-Bulletin, and The Free Lance-Star in Fredericksburg, VA. He previously worked as a freelance cartoons for The Daily Dot, The Seattle Times, and The Costa Rica Star. Clay won "Best Cartoon" in the National Newspaper Association's Better Newspaper Contest (2018), as well as several state awards in Mississippi, Hawaii, and Virginia. Additionally, he was the finalist for the Herblock Award (2019), and rejected a weird "free speech" award from the government of Iran.

A collection of his work is archived at the Mattie Sink Memorial Library at Mississippi State University. An early collection of his cartoons, titled Knee-Deep in Mississippi, was distributed by Pelican Publishing (1997). And his work was displayed in an exhibit at the Jewish Museum Berlin (2017). His daily cartoons are featured in about 50 newspapers and have been reprinted in The New York Times, The Washington Post, Los Angeles Times, USA Today, The Chicago Tribune, Chicago Sun-Times, St. Louis Post-Dispatch, The Dallas Morning News, Winnipeg Free Press, the Ottawa Citizen, Daily Beast, BuzzFeed, Newsweek, Time Magazine, and seen on CNN, MSNBC, and CSPAN. Clay plays and writes 90s-style alt-rock on guitar. He released the album, No Thanks To Hancock, with the band Corporate T-Shirt. Clay lives somewhere in the Washington, D.

C, suburbs of northern Virginia.