Stan Clements' comic work is limited, compared with his broader career as an illustrator and cartoonist for books, magazines and newspapers. He is reported to have been a pioneer film maker.

During his early career, he worked with leading Sydney commercial art studio, Smith & Julius. Unable to find work during the depression, he tutored at the Workers Art Club. In April 1933, along with Frank Beck, George Finey , Clive Guthrie, John Harvey, Geoff Litchfield, McDonnell and Adrienne ('Kitty’) Parkes) he exhibited Saga: A protest in linocuts by the Worker Artists, a folio of linocuts for the Communist Party.

In 1934 he provided stories for Syd Nicholls' tabloid-size pioneering comic Fatty Finn’s Weekly and later in the 1940s for Fatty Finn's Comic and other Syd Nicholls' comics.

In the 1940s, illustrated children's, educational and adult books, including Death Comes to the Führer (~1941), Atlas of First Aid (~1942), Once I Saw a Little Bird and Other Nursery Rhymes (~1945) and Rhymes of a Reveller (~1945). In 1943 Clements was providing cartoons for the communist Tribune (as Clem) and then for Common Cause, the Federated Miners’ newspaper (as S.C.).

In the 1980s, he provided illustrations for some small publications. Landscape oil paintings by Stan Clements have been auctioned in Australia since around 2000.