Jim Borgman is on my cool list

I was listening to the "Around Noon" program on 90.3 just now, and they had two cartoonists on to talk about the content of their work, both on the funny pages and off. One, Tom Batiuk, I've heard before. His Funky Winkerbean has been doing great stuff for years, covering topics from breast cancer to suicide to teen pregnancy, and recently he's been exploring the conflict in Afghanistan.

The second guest I hadn't heard much about. Jim Borgman, in addition to co-authoring Zits, is the editorial cartoonist to the Cincinnati Enquirer. He doesn't have the same topical content in Zits as Batiuk does in Funky, but he said he'd fight to his death for Batiuk's and Gary Trudeau's right to publish serious comics in the paper. That earns him some points.

If that wasn't enough, he's also won a Pulitzer for his other cartooning, which is pretty damn fine. Check it out.