Jim Morin

Who is Jim Morin?

Jim Morin is the internationally syndicated editorial cartoonist at the Miami Herald since 1978 and a painter, usually working in the medium of oil, of more than 40 years. Morin won the Pulitzer Prize for editorial cartooning in 1996, he shared the Pulitzer with the Miami Herald Editorial Board in 1983 and was a Pulitzer finalist in 1977 and 1990. In 2007, he won the prestigious Herblock Prize.

Internationally he has won the Thomas Nast Award, given every three years. Nationally, he has also been awarded the 2000 John Fischetti Award, the 1996 National Press Foundation Berryman Award, the 1992 National Cartoonist Society Editorial Cartoon Award, and the Overseas Press Club Awards in 1990 and 1979.

He is syndicated nationally and internationally by his own, Morintoons Syndicate, at http://www.jimmorin.com. He was previously syndicated by CWS/The New York Times Syndicate for some seven years and by King Features Syndicate for some 24 years.

He is also the author of several books: "Line of Fire, Political Cartoons by Jim Morin," "Bushed" and "Ambushed." His work has also been shown in compendiums of political cartoons and on the PBS documentary, "The American Presidents."