Jim Morin

Jim Morin (born January 30, 1953, in Washington, D.C.[2]) 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.

His cartoons have included extensive commentary on eight U.S. presidents: Richard Nixon, Gerald Ford, Jimmy Carter, Ronald Reagan, George H. W. Bush, Bill Clinton, George W. Bush, Barack Obama and Donald Trump.

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.

He attended the Rivers School in Weston, Massachusetts and Suffield Academy in Connecticut, and studied painting and drawing at Syracuse University under Jerome Witkin.

)[8] Morin's work has also been shown in compendiums of political cartoons and on the PBS documentary, The American Presidents.

[11] 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.

[citation needed] Morin won the Pulitzer Prize for editorial cartooning in 1996 and in 2017.

Upon awarding the Herblock Prize to Morin, Harry Katz, the Herb Block Foundation curator, praised Morin for his "impressive, unrelenting barrage of cartoons and caricatures displaying artistry, courage and conviction.