Clay Jones was often sent to the principal's office as a child for making fun of his classmates. He discovered at a young age that he had a knack for poking fun at the flaws of others, and he decided later to make it a career. He went from drawing simple Crayola caricatures of his friends to full-sized comic books by the time he was in high school.

Jones calls himself "an unreliable conservative," and believes it is his daily goal to lampoon authority and make it look as ridiculous as possible. "My cartoons do not tell readers what they should believe. I hope they simply challenge people to think."