Jim Borgman
Biography
Jim Borgman
Pulitzer Prize winner Jim Borgman is among the most respected cartoonists in America.
Borgman was born Feb. 24, 1954, in Cincinnati. He graduated summa cum laude from Kenyon College in Gambier, Ohio, where he was known to the community for his tenure as staff artist and editorial cartoonist for the Kenyon Collegian from 1974 to 1976.
On the basis of his college cartoons, The Cincinnati Enquirer hired him in 1976 to begin work immediately following his graduation.
In 1980, he joined King Features Syndicate as an editorial cartoonist. He created Zits, his first comic strip, in collaboration with cartoonist Jerry Scott, who also scripts Baby Blues. Zits debuted in July 1997 in more than 200 newspapers --- one of the strongest comic-strip introductions in years. King Features now distributes Zits to more than 1,600 newspapers. In addition to Borgman’s numerous awards for editorial cartooning, Zits brought Jim recognition in cartooning when he and Jerry Scott shared the National Cartoonists Society’s top prize in the Newspaper Comic Strip category two years running in 1998 and 1999; the German Cartoonists Association’s Max and Moritz medal for Best International Comic Strip in 2000, and the Adamson Statuette, the Swedish Academy of Comic Art’s 40th International Prize for “Best International Comic-Strip Cartoonist” in 2005.
Borgman has five books to his credit --- four political-cartoon anthologies and THE MOOD OF AMERICA, which features his drawings and text by James F. McCarty, detailing a cross-country trip the two took for the Enquirer prior to the Statue of Liberty centennial in 1986.
Borgman won the 1991 Pulitzer Prize in journalism for editorial cartooning, and many other awards.
Jim Borgman
