GOP's culture war

Jim Morin’s drawings won the Pulitzer Prize for editorial cartooning in l996. He also has shared a Pulitzer in l983 with other members of The Miami Herald editorial board and was a finalist for the prize in l977 and l990. In 2007, he won the Herblock Prize; in 2000, the John Fischetti Award; in l999, the Thomas Nast Society Award; and in the l996 the National Press Foundation's Berryman Award, among others.Morin joined the staff at The Miami Herald in l978. His work is syndicated internationally by The New York Times/CWS Syndicate. Born in Washington, D.C. and raised outside Boston, Morin started drawing cartoons at age seven. He attended Syracuse University and, fueled by social and political upheavals during the early 1970s, he began publishing political cartoons in his college paper, The Daily Orange.