Peace, Love & Wi-Fi

The "Los Angeles Times" calls "Zits" "one of the freshest and most imaginative comic strips." The world of sixteen-year-old Jeremy Duncan revolves around his insatiable "growing boy" appetite, lip-locking with squeeze Sarah, keeping his jerry-rigged vehicle roadworthy, and playing with his band, Goat Cheese Pizza. Somewhere in the background, he's vaguely aware of some muted voices, constantly beseeching him to pick up his Matterhorn-sized clothes pile, to be home on time (so lame!), and to (God forbid!) communicate with them.

The disembodied voices are those of Connie and Walt, his mostly patient, but sometimes frustrated to exploding, parents. In "Zits, " they portray a hilarious view of coping with a teenager and with being a teenager. Created in 1997 by Pulitzer Prize-winning editorial cartoonist Jim Borgman and Reuben Award-winning cartoonist/writer Jerry Scott, "Zits" appears in more than 1,600 newspapers worldwide in 45 countries and is translated into 15 different languages. The comic has an estimated daily readership of more than 200 million readers.

About the Author

Since 1976, Jim Borgman has satirized politicians and newsmakers as the editorial cartoonist for The Cincinnati Enquirer, to the delight of newspaper readers all across America. He won the prestigious Pulitzer Prize in 1991. As co-creator (with Jerry Scott) of the comic strip, Zits, Borgman's work now reaches every corner of the globe.

Jim Borgman was born February 24, 1954 in Cincinnati and is a product of its blue-collar schools and neighborhoods. A 1976 graduate of Kenyon College, he graduated summa cum laude with Phi Beta Kappa honors. Borgman was hired to begin as the Enquirer's daily cartoonist one week after graduation, on the strength of the weekly cartoon he had drawn for the Kenyon Collegian. As a result he became, he says, "the first Kenyon art major ever to repay his student loan."