Cartoonist Clay Bennett is this year’s winner of the Headliner Award from the Press Club of Atlantic City. Mike Thompson and Robert Ariail were named finalists.
The judges wrote, “You know a Clay Bennett cartoon as soon as you see it. His clean, uncomplicated style is both soft and cutting. And his message is always a mix of a 2×4 over your head, a smile, and a sigh. The man picking up his newspaper (another shooting on the front page) while waving a white flag speaks for all of us…. Clay is an artist who helps us see how the news of the world impacts our lives in a simple, sadly reassuring way.”
Bennett has been on the staff of the Chattanooga Times Free Press since 2007, and this is his 6th Headliner Award. Congrats all!
