Jim Borgman

Since 1976, Jim Borgman has satirized politicians and newsmakers as the editorial cartoonist for The Cincinnati Enquirer. His work is syndicated nationally, to the delight of newspaper readers across America. He won the prestigious Pulitzer Prize for Editorial Cartooning in 1991. As co-creator (with Jerry Scott) of the comic strip, Zits, Borgman's work now reaches every corner of the globe. Jim Borgman was born in Cincinnati, Ohio, and is a product of its blue-collar schools and neighborhoods. A 1976 graduate of Kenyon College, he was hired as the Enquirer's daily cartoonist one week after graduation, on the strength of the weekly cartoon he had drawn for the Kenyon Collegian. As a result he became, he says, "the first Kenyon art major ever to repay his student loan." Borgman squirms at any attempt to label him politically. "If the crowd starts leaning one way, I instinctively lean the other way" He calls his editorial cartons "works in progress... done in the spirit of firing up the American debate." In 1997