Jim Borgman has been the Enquirer's editorial cartoonist since 1976. Borgman has won every major award in his field, including the 1991 Pulitzer Prize, the National Cartoonists Society's Reuben Award for Outstanding Cartoonist of the Year in 1993, and most recently, the Adamson Award in 2005 as International Cartoonist of the Year. His award-winning daily comic strip Zits, co-created with Jerry Scott, chronicles the life of 15-year-old Jeremy Duncan, his family and friends through the glories and challenges of the teenage years. Since debuting in July 1997, Zits has regularly finished #1 in reader comics polls across America and is syndicated in more than 1300 newspapers around the world.
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Post a Comment*Nice drawing! As was yesterday's.
Tragic subject matter necessitates
a more realistic style and you do
these serious matters justice
(and much more) with your art.
After many years doing the same thing sometimes you can get bored, (As a cartoonist myself I know it can happen) but congratulations Jim!, the last six or seven cartoons show both, great ideas and great drawing skills!!
My wife and I were wondering what lesson you think we were supposed to learn from 9/11/2001.
Kill Islamic terrorists before they kill us?
Outlaw box cutters?
Create more government agencies to create colored safety levels to keep us safe?
Just curious.
Dan, are you kidding me? Have you not learned a single lesson from 9/11? I'm guessing that you are from the Baby Boomer generation - the one that let the problems in the Middle East and Southwest Asia fester during the end of the Cold War. Not to spew history or anything, but Afghanistan was left to rot after the Russian-led war there. (By the way, America supported the Taliban during that conflict.) Anyway, so in those countries of poverty and despair, a generation of terrorist brewed. And yet, throughout the 80s and 90s, America didn't pay attention: not when the hostages were taken in Iran in the 1970s, when the extremists hijacked planes in the 1980s, when our embassies were bombed overseas in the 1990s. It was only in September 2001 when we finally woke up and paid attention to what was happening overseas. Whether or not the conflict in Iraq is "right or not", the bottom line is that terrorism is rooted in ignorance and poverty and it's our job - as Americans - to bridge the cultural gaps, something MY generation is working hard to do everyday.
At the very least, the lesson you should have learned on 9/11 is that America is not universally loved, and hopefully motivated you to learn perhaps why.
So many snafu's have been revealed by now it makes one ill. One lesson, among many, would be to have the FBI and CIA work together, to share information; they might have had a good change to thwart 9/11 if they had been doing so.
Jayme,
I am 41 years old and an ex-Army officer who served in West Germany during the Cold War. I also studied Arabic and Middle East culture at West Point, but ended up with an engineering degree. Demographically I'm either in the last year of Baby Boomers or the first year of whatever came next. 1965 was a year of transition.
I did not live on base but chose to live with the German people during my stay. My wife lived in Switzerland for five years while she was growing up. We are well aware, from first hand experience, why Americans are not universally loved nor respected throughout the world.
My comment was simply that the "lesson" which Mr. Borgman thinks should be learned is ambigious. Some people think we weren't giving enough money to Afghanistan in the 80's. Some folks think we should have turned the oil fields into glass and taken them over.
I'm curious where Mr. Borgman stands.
Or maybe he was poking people's brains, prodding them to think of what lessons each individual learned. Mr. Borgman is very talented at making people think.
And out of curiosity, what is YOUR generation doing every day to bridge the cultural gaps, and what exactly is your generation?
What's my generation doing? Below are links to a few examples of my generation bridging the cultural gaps. I picked military, so you can relate.
http://www.news.navy.mil/search/display.asp?story_id=25506
http://www.af.mil/news/story.asp?id=123026923
http://www.defendamerica.mil/articles/apr2005/a041505la4.html
I don't think my generation has a name yet. MTV? Generation Y? The Next Greatest? I think it's undecided.
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