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James Mark Borgman (born February 24, 1954), an American cartoonist. He is known for his political cartoons and his nationally syndicated comic strip Zits.

Personal

Borgman was born in Cincinnati, Ohio to James and Marian Borgman, where he began his career in journalism as a student at Elder High School. He then attended Ohio's Kenyon 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 many years, 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.

Borgman has been an editorial cartoonist for the Cincinnati Enquirer since 1976.

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 of Bill Clinton, many of the cartoons involved 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, Spanish, and Finnish.

Awards

In 1991, when Borgman was 39 years old, he won the Pulitzer Prize. He has also won the National Cartoonist Society Editorial Cartoon Award for 1986, 1987, 1988, 1994, and 2006, their Newspaper Comic Strip for 1997, their Newspaper Comic Strip (with Jerry Scott) in 1998 and 1999 for Zits, and their Reuben Award in 1993. Borgman also won the Reuben Award for editorial cartooning in 2006, and has achieved a great deal of recongnition 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.

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Preceded by
Tom Toles		Winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Editorial Cartooning
1991		Succeeded by
Signe Wilkinson
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