Third in a series

        Judy Harrell isn't sure, but she thinks she wrote Jim Borgman his first fan letter. Besides an original Borgman hanging in her Cleves home, she has “at least a storage-box full of Borgman's work “... sometimes I feel like a mother with a very messy scrapbook.”

Judy Harrell has an original Borgman cartoon. (Craig Ruttle photo) | ZOOM |

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        She got her original when “I whined to my husband about not having an original Borgman.”

        By chance, husband Walt had a friend at the Enquirer. The friend arranged for Walt to meet Jim. Close to the end of the meeting, Jim told Walt to go through a file cabinet and pick something out.

        “My husband chose something very "us.' It concerned garbage and its age while resting in the kitchen. Mrs. Harrell, for the record, is not a legendary housekeeper. But she is very forgiving:

        “Mr. B. and I are often completely opposed politically, but I still admire his grasp of ideas and his draftsmanship ... I even defended him when he produced what others thought was a very controversial cartoon.”

        Wednesday: Republican bashing

        Coming Sunday: A commemorative Borgman section

        See Jim Borgman's cartoons at borgman.enquirer.com

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