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June 6, 2006
Cincinnati Enquirer' Section to Mark 30 Years of Borgman
According to a recent E&P report, The Cincinnati Enquirer will be publishing a special section this week to mark editorial cartoonist Jim Borgman's 30th anniversary with the newspaper.
Borgman, who was born and raised in Cincinnati, joined the Enquirer right out of college on June 7, 1976.
The section will include cartoons by the Pulitzer Prize-winning Borgman, comments by people who have been the subject of his commentary, a Q&A, the results of the "Borgman Challenge" cartoon contest, and other content.
Borgman told E&P that the section, scheduled to hit the street Tuesday, June 6 (which is also, coincidentally, the day of his wedding anniversary) is a real honor. He added that the newspaper may be doing the special section partly to make up for the cancellation of a 25th-anniversary public event that had been scheduled for October 2001. "The invitations were sent out Sept. 10," recalled Borgman. "After the next day, no one was in the mood to celebrate."
The Enquirer did publish a 25th-anniversary Borgman book in 2001.
Borgman's editorial cartoons are syndicated to about 200 newspapers via King Features -- which also distributes the "Zits" comic, co-created by Borgman and Jerry Scott, to more than 1,400 papers.
E&P will also be running a profile of Borgman in its July 2006 magazine.