A lot has been said about Aseem Trivedi.
I have checked most of Aseem Trivedi's work on his blog. If one has some basic understanding of political cartoons or cartoon strips or comics in general; at first glance, one can understand that the his work is amateurish and merely stating what we all know. A good political cartoon evokes thought. It shouldn't necessarily state things 'the way they are' - for that we have prose left to lesser mortals like us 
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(Branching out to make another point, even R. K. Laxman's 'Common Man' is observational or 'merely stating what we all know'. However his cartoons have a sixty year legacy hence nobody ever talks about it openly, albeit it is done very tastefully)
Trivedi's cartoons seems like a work of an angry school kid who is venting out his anger/frustration against his repressive school system.
Whatever little bit I have read about him in papers and journals, cartoonists, artists and writers unanimously have said - Aseem Trivedi is high on anger and low on talent. (unfortunately I do not have any link to support this but you would have to believe me)
Have you noticed that his cartoons are just expressing what we all speak in crude Hindi? 
In a newspaper, a cartoonist who didn't wish to be named said, Aseem Trivedi shouldn't have been jailed for sedition charges, he should have been jailed for bad art.
Another confession. At least he did something which got the people talking and the world interested about the corruption in India. For that he needs to be saluted.
If I may offer an analogy to express Aseem's standing.
Aseem Trivedi : (Political) Cartoons :: :: Poonam Pandey : Twitter
