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    Jim Morin's World: 40 Years of Social Commentary From A Two-Time Pulitzer Prize-Winning Cartoonist
    Jim Morin's World: 40 Years of Social Commentary From A Two-Time Pulitzer Prize-Winning Cartoonist
    Jim Morin's World: 40 Years of Social Commentary From A Two-Time Pulitzer Prize-Winning Cartoonist
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    Jim Morin's World: 40 Years of Social Commentary From A Two-Time Pulitzer Prize-Winning Cartoonist

    By Jim Morin and Carl Hiaasen

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    Best cartoons from Jim Morin

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    Want to laugh and enjoy some of the best cartoons from a gifted creator of editorial cartoons? And, a two-time Pulitzer Prize winner (1996 and 2017)

    The Miami Herald's Jim Morin has created some of the best editorial cartoons in the business: Political cartoonists distill opinions about power and culture into art and commentary with the sharp points of their pens. How does an artist who has produced over the past 40 years some of the best cartoons among editorial cartoonists in the business generate the ideas for a relentless stream of sharp political and social commentary? Most recently, during and after Election 2016, the remarkable artist's pen of Jim Morin has produced a steady stream of Donald Trump cartoons that have both delighted and infuriated followers, depending upon their side of the Donald Trump divide. This book of best cartoons by Jim Morin is both funny and poignant. It is a nostalgic journey through the last 40 years of the comedy and reality of our world.

    Member of the exclusive club of Pulitzer Prize winners: Jim Morin has been the Miami Herald's internationally syndicated editorial cartoonist since 1978. He is the Pulitzer Prize winner for editorial cartooning in 1996 and shared Pulitzer Prize winner status with the Miami Herald Editorial Board in 1983. In 2007, he won the prestigious Herblock Prize. He has covered eight U.S. presidents from Richard Nixon through Barack Obama, and now Donald Trump as candidate and Donald Trump as the new president. Morin also is syndicated nationally and internationally by his own Morintoons Syndicate at http://www.jimmorin.com. include Line of Fire: Political Cartoons by Jim Morin, Bushed, and Ambushed.

    Editorial cartoons from a gifted artist: Upon awarding the prestigious Herblock Prize to Jim Morin in 2007, Harry Katz, the Herb Block Foundation curator, praised this two-time Pulitzer Prize winner for his "impressive, unrelenting barrage of cartoons and caricatures displaying artistry, courage and conviction." Morin should also be praised for his wit and timely wry sense of humor, which has been a staple of the Miami Herald since 1978. Jim Morin's World: 40 Years of Social Commentary From A Two-Time Pulitzer Prize-Winning Cartoonist is a collection of some of the best cartoons by this gifted artist and commentator on our times.

    What do some of Jim Morin's peers say about him? "We’re lucky to have one of the very best, waiting with pen in hand to carve up the phonies, blowhards, crooks and hypocrites who make headlines. They might not want to end up in a Jim Morin cartoon, but they will." - Carl Hiaasen

    "Jim Morin has all the attributes of a first-rate cartoonist. He has a clear idea how he feels about issues and he wants you to know about it. He then expresses himself clearly and concisely in a manner that is both exciting and explorative." - Pat Oliphant

    "Jim Morin is one of the great under-appreciated cartoonists of the last quarter century." - The Comics Reporter

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherMango
    Release dateFeb 8, 2017
    ISBN9781633535060
    Jim Morin's World: 40 Years of Social Commentary From A Two-Time Pulitzer Prize-Winning Cartoonist
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    Jim Morin

    Jim Morin is the Miami Herald’s internationally syndicated editorial cartoonist since 1978. Morin won the Pulitzer Prize for editorial cartooning in 1996 and shared the Pulitzer with the Miami Herald Editorial Board in 1983. In 2007, he won the prestigious Herblock Prize. He has covered eight U.S. presidents from Richard Nixon through Barack Obama.

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      Jim Morin's World - Jim Morin

      FOREWORD

      The best editorial cartoonists are writers at heart.

      Not frustrated writers – serious, gifted, and prolific writers. They’re able to express with a few lines, or sometimes just a single word, what a columnist struggles to say in reams. And some of their most powerful cartoons have no words at all. The very act of political drawing is a way of writing, each flick of the pen as crucial as an adjective in a sentence. Yet while a columnist might get away with rambling, or the occasional clunky phrase, the cartoonist is a prisoner of precision.

      There’s no place in that little panel for dead air. Jim Morin has been publishing cartoons for 40 years at the Miami Herald, and those of us who merely write for the newspaper are still astounded daily by how deft and fearless he is. Plenty of cartoonists can do a number on Donald Trump’s hair, Barack Obama’s ears, or Vladimir Putin’s glare. Caricature is the easier part of the job. The harder part is composing something timely and important. All you’ve got to do is come up with a really clever idea, every day. Then you’ve got to sit down and draw it perfectly – on deadline. No pressure there, right?

      Good editorial cartoons, like good columns, always rankle somebody. That isn’t a sworn mission; it’s just the natural result of expressing an opinion that not everyone will embrace.But, again, columnists have it easier because readers who disagree with our viewpoints can easily dodge our words. All they’ve got to do is stop reading, and look elsewhere in the newspaper for something more palatable to read.

      An editorial cartoon, however, cannot be avoided or even skimmed. It’s right there, in your face. The moment you open the Herald to the Opinion pages, or to the homepage of the website, you see Jim Morin’s latest creation. The visual connection is instant, and so is the jolt. This impressive, highly entertaining collection of Jim’s work arrives at a time when many Americans fear the country is hopelessly divided, and on the brink of historic upheaval.

      Yet these cartoons remind us with humor, heartache and humanity that we’ve endured decades of tumult – the Iran-contra scandal, Mariel boatlift, Bill Clinton’s impeachment, the hanging chads of Bush v. Gore, the 9/11 attacks, the occupation of Iraq, the financial crash of 2008… and that’s the short list. Jim would be the first to admit that working in crazy, scandal-plagued South Florida gives him a geographic edge over other editorial cartoonists. No other place is such a target-rich environment for satirists.

      We’re lucky to have one of the very best, waiting with pen in hand to carve up the phonies, blowhards, crooks and hypocrites who make headlines. They might not want to end up in a Jim Morin cartoon, but

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