Jim Morin

Morin was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for editorial cartooning in 1996 and again in 2017. He also shared in the Miami Herald's editorial writing Pulitzer Prize in 1983. Morin is also syndicated nationally and internationally by his own Morintoons Syndicate. His cartoons and caricatures run in newspapers in states including New York, Alaska, Colorado, Ohio, Oregon, California, Michigan, Arkansas, Tennessee, Virginia, Washington, D.C, Texas, as well as in Canada and countries in Europe and Southwest Asia. His work has appeared in national magazines, various books and on Internet sites and magazines. Morin has been interviewed on CNN, WFOR, NPR, Sky News (the 24-hour European television news station), Comcast Newsmakers and several other television programs.

• Name — Jim Morin • Born — 30 January 1953 • Birthplace — Washington, D.C. • Awards — Overseas Press Club Awards, 1979 & 1990 Pulitzer Prize, Miami Herald Editorial Board, 1983 National Cartoonist Society Editorial Cartoon Award, 1992 Pulitzer Prize for editorial cartooning, 1996 & 2017 Berryman Award, 1996 John Fischetti Award, 2000 Thomas Nast Prize, 2002 Herblock Prize, 2007 • Website — www.jimmorin.com • Field — Visual arts, painting • Spouse — Danielle Morin

Morin was born on January 30, 1953, in Washington, D.C. and raised in the Massachusetts suburb of Wayland. He began drawing at age seven. He attended the Rivers School in Weston, Massachusetts and Suffield Academy in Connecticut, and studied painting and drawing at Syracuse University under Jerome Witkin. "He was the only teacher I had who saw cartoons as paintings, as art," Morin says. "Painting has made me more conscious.... My paintings affect my drawings and vice versa." The Watergate scandal inspired Morin to explore the art of caricature. During his senior year at Syracuse, he was the editorial cartoonist for their daily student newspaper, The Daily Orange. He graduated from Syracuse in 1975 with a degree in illustration and a minor in painting. Following college, Morin served a brief stint as the editorial cartoonist at The Beaumont Enterprise before moving on to Richmond, Virginia, where he spent one year as the editorial cartoonist at the Richmond Times-Dispatch. During his time in Richmond, Morin became a professional acquaintance of Jeff MacNelly, the Pulitzer Prize-winning cartoonist at the Richmond News Leader. In December, 1978, Morin moved to The Miami Herald where he worked until his retirement in 2019. Throughout his editorial cartooning career, he also worked evenings on his oil paintings and his work was shown at many galleries and museum shows throughout Florida. Morin retired from the Miami Herald in 2020, with his last cartoon being published in the paper on 1 January 2020.

His cartoons have been exhibited worldwide, most recently at The Ogunquit Museum of American Art, where in 2022, a selection of his cartoons focused on issues of the environment were showcased alongside a selection of his landscape paintings. His cartoons were also featured in an exhibition at the University of Miami's Lowe Art Museum, where he also spoke to a packed and standing audience. His retrospective exhibition of cartoons at the International Museum of Cartoon Art hung for nine months due to popular demand. The Coral Springs Museum of Art exhibited a large body of his work in its two-month show, Jim Morin: Art of Politics Drawings & Paintings in 2008. His canvasses have been exhibited in Miami group shows at the Museum of Science, the Art Collector's Gallery, the Don Webb Gallery, the Virginia Miller Gallery and Patou Fine Art. He had a one-man show at the Futernick Gallery in Miami in 2006. On the web, his paintings can be viewed on his website and at that of Absolute Arts.