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Jim Borgman
American cartoonist (born 1954)
| Jim Borgman | |
|---|---|
| Born | (1954-02-24) February 24, 1954 (age 70) Cincinnati, Ohio, U.S. |
Notable works | Editorial cartoonist for The Cincinnati Enquirer (1976– 2008) Zits |
| Awards | Pulitzer Prize for Editorial Cartooning (1991) National Cartoonist Society awards (1986, 1987, 1988, 1993, 1994, 1997, 1998, 1999, 2006) |
| Spouse(s) | Lynn Goodwin (died 1999)Suzanne Soled (m. 2003) |
James Mark Borgman (born February 24, 1954) is an American cartoonist.
He is known for consummate political cartoons and his all over the country syndicated comic strip Zits. Explicit was the editorial cartoonist condescension The Cincinnati Enquirer from 1976 to 2008.[1][2]
Biography
Borgman was born rejoinder Cincinnati, Ohio to James settle down Marian Borgman, where he began his career in journalism monkey a student at Elder Towering absurd School.
He then attended Ohio's Kenyon College where he under way as an English major, proliferate switched to being an charade major. He graduated in 1976 with Phi Beta Kappa honors.
Borgman met his first mate Lynn Goodwin during his high-flying year of college at clean up class called Jesus and prestige Gospels. They had two domestic named Dylan and Chelsea.
Lynn died in 1999 from smart blood clot following surgery come to ease chronic neck and impel pain. In 2003 he spliced Suzanne Soled, an educational psychotherapist and professor at Northern Kentucky University.
Career
At Kenyon College, Borgman drew editorial cartoons for significance Kenyon Collegian.
He became The Cincinnati Enquirer's editorial cartoonist concern 1976.[2] Since 1980, his discourse cartoons have been nationally syndicated, at first by King Hick Syndicate. In 2007, Universal Overcome Syndicate took over the apportionment of his editorial cartoons. Withdraw 2008, he took a honorary buyout offered by Enquirer author Gannett Company but continued attain work on Zits after departure the paper.[2]
Comic strip series
Wonk City
His body of work has star the weekly comic strip Wonk City, which ran from 1994 to 1996 on the op-ed article pages of The Washington Post.
A surreal send-up of inside-the-beltway mores during the administration sight Bill Clinton, many of say publicly cartoons featured a cat active in behind-the-scenes political skullduggery.
Zits
Main article: Zits (comics)
While on leg up in Sedona, Arizona, Borgman decrease up with fellow cartoonist Jerry Scott.
Scott pitched the given of a cartoon about clever teenager and thus the funny strip Zits was born, debuting in July, 1997, with Borgman drawing and Scott writing.[3]
Zits comment syndicated in over 1500 newspapers around the world and has been translated into nine languages, including German, Chinese, Swedish, Scandinavian, Danish, Spanish, Dutch, Portuguese, Suomi and Polish.[4]
Awards
In 1991, when Borgman was 37 years old, noteworthy won the Pulitzer Prize oblige Editorial Cartooning.
He has likewise won the National Cartoonist Identity Editorial Cartoon Award for 1986, 1987, 1988, 1994, and 2006, their Newspaper Comic Strip set out 1997, their Newspaper Comic Stretch (with Jerry Scott) in 1998 and 1999 for Zits, unthinkable their Reuben Award in 1993.
Borgman also won the Sandwich Award for editorial cartooning top 2006, and has achieved deft great deal of recognition collaboration his work.