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   motivemagus said, about 1 year ago

   Drat! One of my favorite political cartoonists departing the editorial page! Apparently he’s having a hard time keeping up Zits and political cartooning, according to his blog. I’ll miss him.

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   deadheadzan said, about 1 year ago

   What a loss to the political cartoon page. He was one of the best. I hope he eventually returns to this field.

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   nz4m60 said, about 1 year ago

   Is Jim Borgman leaving political cartoons?

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   nz4m60 said, about 1 year ago

   from:
   http://news.cincinnati.com/apps/pbcs.dll/section?category=borgblog

   9/26/2008 11:40am
   I’ve said my piece, as Grandma Borgman would have said.

   One week after graduating from Kenyon College 32 years ago I started drawing editorial cartoons for the Cincinnati Enquirer, awestruck to be working for the only newspaper that had ever been spread across my Price Hill family’s kitchen table. I’ve barely looked up since. Some employee! Not a single promotion in three decades. My buddy says I’m “still stuck in the same dead-end job” I got right out of college.

   But what a job. And what a remarkable landscape of nonsense and characters I’ve gotten to chronicle in the years since. Hidden behind each day’s cartoon has been a sweatfest aimed at amusing and engaging you in the topics of our times, all done in the belief that when we are fully immersed in lively debate we make wiser decisions about our world. I’ve poured my blood and bones into a job which, if done well, looks effortless and whimsical. I’ve had fun and you’ve told me you have, too.

   It’s been important to me that my work be of this place, midwestern, blue collar, with a voice from the heartland. My characters are mostly doughy, big-hearted Cincinnatians, wrestling with the news and the way it trickles down into their hard-working lives. I’ve studied you at Lookout Joe’s over lattes, Skyline over three-ways, and at Delhi Frisch’s over breakfast with my mom. You are beautiful, kind and generous people and it has been an honor to share these years with you. There is no place I would have rather invested my life.

   When I created Zits twelve years ago with my partner Jerry Scott, my hours behind the drawing board doubled and the weekends turned into weekdays. A body can only do double duty for so long, and mine has gotten soft in the middle. It’s telling me to get the bike down from the garage ceiling and breathe some fresh air again.

   I don’t know if I’ll miss this precious real estate I’ve enjoyed and the chance to talk about anything on my mind. I do look forward to reading a newspaper without a highlighter in my hand. Sometimes lately when I watch the news I feel like a butcher looking at a field full of cows. I don’t see the animals anymore, just the hamburger. That’s a good sign that it’s time to shake yourself off and do something else.

   The thing I treasure most from these years is the relationship you and I have built, meeting over coffee every morning. When my editor suggested that it was a shame to let that lapse, I agreed and came up with an idea.

   Over the years I’ve played at creating a weekly comic strip devoted to just us and this curious place we live. Outsiders won’t get it.

   All I can tell you so far is that it will be about a little flying pig who lives in the back booth of a chili parlor in a quirky town called Porkopolis. Watch this space in January.

   Meanwhile, thank you for humoring me. What a pleasure it has been!

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   Corosive Frog said, about 1 year ago

   Less is more!

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   acellist said, about 1 year ago

   Bummer, Dude!

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   FarWestGirl said, about 1 year ago

   We’ll miss ya, Jim. Good luck!

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   eepatte said, about 1 year ago

   I am so disappointed that you will no longer be on my daily reading list with your editorial cartoons. But, rather than to lament your leaving, we should probably just be grateful that you have chosen to grace our lives with your excellent work for so long. Thank you and good luck to you and yours.

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   DHLEAKY said, about 1 year ago

   We raised three zits, and have 2 boy and 2 girl grand zits each.
   Those zits of us in our 70s and 80s, thank you for your input into our thought processes for this too short a time.
   As was said above,
   LIVE LONG AND PROSPER.

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    lalas said, about 1 year ago

    Thanks Jim!

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    Alexus_The_Great said, about 1 year ago

    Thanks for the laughs, Jim!

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    danmalleck said, about 1 year ago

    I have not clued into Jim as an editorial cartoonist until today. But I’ve enjoyed Zits for years. (That sounds quite strange.)
    Jim, best of luck.

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    alife said, about 1 year ago

    It’s all been said… ENJOY LIFE :D

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    Corosive Frog said, about 1 year ago

    That was a farewell cartoon, eh?

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    Barbaraailant said, about 1 year ago

    I thought it was a joke, sorry to see this one go

16. 

    Singess said, about 1 year ago

    Ok, we get the point. Now just delete and clear the space.

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    Singess said, about 1 year ago

    Who is in charge of deleting this kind of thing? He (or she) is not doing a good job. Singess.

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    Trogon2 said, about 1 year ago

    Go away already. Enough is enough.

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    bilson said, 12 months ago

    Really looking forward to January and the weekend toon. Enjoy the (bike) ride Jim and thanks again for so many memories. I really miss the VW van clips - shows my age!

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    Singess said, 12 months ago

    Is somebody just asleep at the switch,or what? The man has quit drawing editorial stuff, and I can’t believe that there is no one capable of getting this repetitive stuff off the site. Singess

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    jimtypes said, 11 months ago

    Some of us are less neurotic than Schulz was.. looks like we have something in common. Gotta’ draw, though…