Career
Originally from Canton, Ohio Bors attended the Art Institute of Pittsburgh, where he first began drawing editorial cartoons for the student newspaper. At 23, his work became syndicated by Universal Features, making him the youngest syndicated cartoonist in the country at that time. His work has since appeared in The Los Angeles Times, The Nation, Village Voice, The Daily Beast, and on Daily Kos. In 2012, US Congressman John Larson used one of Bors cartoons during a house floor debate about the affordable care act
His first graphic novel, War Is Boring, a collaboration with journalist David Axe, was published in 2010 by New American Library.
Bors lives in Portland, Oregon.
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