[1] Interested in art from an early age, she was a third-prize winner in a newspaper coloring contest when she was 12 years old.
[2] She attended Tascosa High School[3] before enrolling at Texas Christian University in Fort Worth, where she studied illustration under Don Ivan Punchatz.
Her extensive magazine credits also included article illustrations for Esquire,[7][8] National Lampoon,[9][10][11] Oui,[12] and Playboy.
The Society first awarded her for the cover of the 1974 Brownsville Station album School Punks, which she illustrated by commission of Atlantic Records.
[citation needed] In the mid-1990s, Bordelon also provided illustrations and creative input for some Origin Systems video games.