James Mark Borgman was born on February 24,1954 and is an American cartoonist.
13 Facts About Jim Borgman
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Jim Borgman is known for his political cartoons and his nationally syndicated comic strip Zits.
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Jim Borgman was the editorial cartoonist at The Cincinnati Enquirer from 1976 to 2008.
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Jim Borgman was born in Cincinnati, Ohio to James and Marian Jim Borgman, where he began his career in journalism as a student at Elder High School.
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Jim Borgman then attended Ohio's Kenyon College where he started as an English major, then switched to being an art major.
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Jim Borgman graduated in 1976 with Phi Beta Kappa honors.
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Jim Borgman met his first wife Lynn Goodwin during his senior year of college at a class called Jesus and the Gospels.
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At Kenyon College, Jim Borgman drew editorial cartoons for the Kenyon Collegian.
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Jim Borgman became The Cincinnati Enquirers editorial cartoonist in 1976.
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Scott pitched the idea of a cartoon about a teenager and thus the comic strip Zits was born, debuting in July, 1997, with Jim Borgman drawing and Scott writing.
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In 1991, when Jim Borgman was 37 years old, he won the Pulitzer Prize for Editorial Cartooning.
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Jim Borgman has 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 in 1998 and 1999 for Zits, and their Reuben Award in 1993.
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Jim Borgman won the Reuben Award for editorial cartooning in 2006, and has achieved a great deal of recognition for his work.