- Jim Borgman
James Mark Borgman (born
February 24 ,1954 ) is an Americancartoonist . He is known for his political cartoons and his nationally syndicated comic stripZits .Personal
Borgman was born in Cincinnati,
Ohio to James and Marian Borgman, where he began his career in journalism as a student atElder High School . He then attended Ohio'sKenyon College where he started as an English major, then switched to being an art major. He graduated in 1976 with Phi Beta Kappa honors.Borgman met his first wife Lynn Goodwin during his senior year of college at a class called "Jesus and the Gospels". They had two children named Dylan and Chelsea. Lynn passed away in 1999 from a blood clot following a surgery to ease chronic neck and shoulder pain. After a short while, he was remarried to Suzanne Soled, an educational psychologist and professor at Northern Kentucky University. Together with Suzanne, they are the parents of five children.
Career
At Kenyon College, Borgman drew editorial cartoons for the "Kenyon Collegian".
Since 1980, his editorial cartoons have been nationally syndicated, at first by
King Features Syndicate . In 2007,Universal Press Syndicate took over the distribution of his editorial cartoons.Comic strip series
Wonk City
His body of work has included the weekly comic strip "Wonk City," which ran from 1994 to 1996 on the editorial pages of "
The Washington Post ". A surreal send-up of inside-the-beltway mores during the administration ofBill Clinton , many of the cartoons featured a cat involved in behind-the-scenes political skullduggery.Zits
While on vacation in
Sedona, Arizona , Borgman met up with fellow cartoonist,Jerry Scott . Scott pitched the idea of a cartoon about a teenager and thus the comic strip "Zits" was born, debuting in July, 1997, with Borgman cartooning and Scott writing."Zits" is syndicated in over 1499 newspapers around the world and is translated into seven languages, including German, Chinese, Swedish, Norwegian, Spanish, and Finnish.
Awards
In 1991, when Borgman was 37 years old, he won the
Pulitzer Prize . He has also won theNational Cartoonist Society Editorial Cartoon Award for 1986, 1987, 1988, 1994, and 2006, their Newspaper Comic Strip for 1997, their Newspaper Comic Strip (withJerry Scott ) in 1998 and 1999 for "Zits", and theirReuben Award in 1993. Borgman also won the Reuben Award for editorial cartooning in 2006, and has achieved a great deal of recognition for his work.References
*Strickler, Dave. "Syndicated Comic Strips and Artists, 1924-1995: The Complete Index." Cambria, CA: Comics Access, 1995. ISBN 0-9700077-0-1.
Bibliography
* Pearce, Sara. "Jim Borgman: 25 years at the Cincinnati Enquirer." "The Cincinnati Enquirer".
External links
* [http://borgman.enquirer.com/ Borgman at the "Cincinnati Enquirer", which includes a searchable archive, biography, and three-part profile]
* [http://www.reuben.org/ncs/awards.asp National Cartoonist Society Awards]
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