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          Jim Borgman: My 25 Years at The Cincinnati Enquirer

          by Dan Laskin

          Frankly, it's hard to think of Jim Borgman '76 as an eminence. There's just too much wit, verve, exuberance, and fun in his political cartoons-too much sheer youth.

          And there's too much dead-on truth about adolescence in his comic strip, Zits.

          But here's proof that Borgman's energy has been matched by his endurance and, yes, eminence: a volume celebrating a career that began fresh out of Kenyon in , that was still ascending when he won the Pulitzer Prize in , and that has kept on soaring.

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          5. Though it may be a contradiction of sorts to say so, because great cartoonists revel in iconoclasm, Jim Borgman is an institution.

          And, as this book shows, he is a beloved one. Part homage, part exhibit, part family album, My 25 Years at The Cincinnati Enquirer offers an engaging picture of the man as well as the work.

          Short, anecdote-filled chapters, most written by Enquirer reporters and columnists,