‘Jim’ lives and works in Auckland, New Zealand. However, those who know his life story know that he grew up in Australia as Brendan Boughen - the son of a preacher man - and has been drawing cartoons throughout his life, very often with religious themes inspired by his upbringing in the Christian Church. Jim was published in his first newspaper by the age of 13 and in his first book by 14. Since then, his cartoons have featured in magazines and web sites in Australia, New Zealand, the UK and the USA. In 2006, Jim published his first book, called ‘Gone Astray: A collection of (sac)religious cartoons by Jim’, which chronicled his first 10 years of cartooning on ‘churchy’ topics. Since then, his single-panel cartoons have featured monthly in Touchstone magazine (published by the Methodist Church of New Zealand) – and touched on wide range of topics relevant to church-going people, as well as those outside church walls who may look in through the windows wondering what the heck is going on inside.