Zits
About Zits
At its heart, Zits is about living with a teenager in the house.
Seventeen-year-old Jeremy Duncan is sentenced to spend this stretch of his life with his parents, Connie and Walt Duncan. He is an intelligent and kind person, and also a maddeningly frustrating work-in-progress for Walt and Connie. Two things can be true at once.
Zits focuses on Jeremy’s journey through adolescence and the debris he leaves in his wake.
Meet the Creators
Jerry Scott
As Co-creator of Baby Blues and Zits, he is one of just four cartoonists in history to have two daily comics strips running in well over a thousand newspapers each. Born May 2, 1955 in South Bend, Indiana, he was first introduced to the newspaper business by delivering the South Bend Tribune from his bicycle […]
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Jim Borgman graduated from Kenyon in 1976 and was hired as the editorial cartoonist by the Cincinnati Enquirer, his hometown newspaper, which he did for the next 32 years. His fellow cartoonists voted him Best Editorial Cartoonist in America five times, and he was awarded the Pulitzer Prize in 1991 and the Reuben Award for […]
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Characters
Connie Duncan
Connie Duncan is Jeremy’s forty-something mom. She is a former child psychologist who is itching to rewrite ...
D’ijon
D’ijon is Pierce’s girlfriend. Although she looks more mainstream than Pierce, she shares his interest in the counterculture (she has a tattoo of Edvard Munch’s “The Scream” on her ton...
Hector Garcia
Hector has been Jeremy’s best friend since the fourth grade. He is around 6’ 5”, and has been si...
Jeremy Duncan
Jeremy is a high school student with a great core group of friends. He’s an aspiring rock legend (certainly you’ve heard of Goat Cheese Pizza) with dreams larger than his de...
Pierce
Pierce is an early adopter of all things risky and cutting edge.
Rich and Amy
Every high school has one. They are the couple who fell in love early and never got out. Deeply. Madly. Sincerely. Nauseatingly. Against all odds (and some laws of physics), they have ...
Sara Toomey
First of all, the boyfriend/girlfriend thing is a social construct, but one she reluctantly accepts. Sara feels th...
Walt Duncan
Walt is an orthodontist who, by profession, spends nearly eight hours of every day staring directly into the jaws ...