Davies was born in London in 1966 and lived there until his family relocated to the United States in 1983. He graduated from
Staples High School in
Westport, Connecticut, in 1985, and subsequently studied illustration and fine art at The
Savannah College of Art & Design in Savannah, Georgia, then the
School of Visual Arts in New York City. After college, he began doing freelance cartoons, before being hired full-time to draw for
The Journal News (based in
Westchester, New York) in April 1993. He joined
Newsday as staff cartoonist and a member of the editorial board in 2014 in New York, and his cartoons are syndicated nationally by
Universal Uclick. In the past Davies has drawn for
The Journal News in Westchester, New York, the
Hearst Connecticut Newspaper group, and the non-profit online policy journal Remapping Debate.org. His work has appeared regularly in
The New York Times,
The Washington Post, the
Los Angeles Times and
USA Today. His work has also been featured in
Newsweek,
Time,
U.S. News & World Report,
CNN,
The Week and
Mad Magazine. In 2004–2005 he was the President of the
Association of American Editorial Cartoonists. and was signed with
Neal Porter, of
Roaring Brook Press/
Macmillan to write and illustrate his first two picture books. The first book titled
Ben Rides On was released to wide critical acclaim in the spring of 2013, was a
Junior Library Guild selection for fall 2013 and a
Kirkus Reviews "Best Book" of 2013. His second book
Ben Draws Trouble was released in 2015. He also illustrated the children's picture books
Nerdy Birdy (2016) and
Nerdy Birdy Tweets (2017), written by New York Times bestselling author Aaron Reynolds. Davies has given talks about cartooning and politics at many venues including the
UN,
The Library of Congress, The
National Press Club in Washington DC,
Columbia University,
The British Library in London,
The National Archives in Washington, D.C., and the
Tribeca Film Festival. He was also the 2004 Writer-in-Residence with the Journalism and Art departments at the
University of Wisconsin-Madison, and served on the advisory board of the
National Cartoon Museum. Davies and his wife, Lucy, live in New York with their three children. ==Awards==