Jim Borgman Takes Voluntary Severance



In perhaps the biggest sign of the times moment related to cartooning in recent, tumultuous newspaper industry history, the cartoonist Jim Borgman, a fixture at the Cincinnati Enquirer for 32 years and maybe the prime example of a cartoonist leveraging his popularity into a variety of opportunities as a staffer and freelancer, has taken a voluntary severance package that may include up to one year's salary. This will bring to an end his daily cartoon contribution, although he'll stay in the pages of his longtime home as a weekly feature provider. Borgman may be better known to many as the artist behind the successful Zits feature with writer Jerry Scott. Borgman's departure comes in the midst of an overall reduction of the paper's workforce mandated by changing staffing needs and economic belt-tightening.

I believe that 32 years makes the Enquirer Borgman's only full-time professional newspaper home, although I know he did a feature for the Washington Post for a couple of years and his work is widely syndicated. Borgman won a Pulitzer in 1991, the Reuben in 1993, and several NCS divisional awards.
 
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