Born in Washington, D.C. and raised outside Boston, Jim Morin started drawing cartoons at age seven. He attended Syracuse University and, fueled by social and political upheavals during the early 1970's, he began publishing political cartoons in Syracuse University's The Daily Orange.

Jim Morin's drawings won the Pulitzer Prize for editorial cartooning in l996. He shared the Pulitzer in l983 with other members of the Miami Herald editorial board, and was a Pulitzer finalist in l977 and l990. He has also won the 2000 John Fischetti Award, the l999 Thomas Nast Award, the National Press Foundation's l996 Berryman Award, the l992 National Cartoonist Society award, and the Overseas Press Club Awards in 1990 and 1979, amongst others. He most recently won second place in the 2005 Global Millennium Cartoon Competition.