The then-editor, Robert Vann, wrote back. It was during this period that she wrote a letter to the editor of the Pittsburgh Courier, a weekly African-American newspaper that was published on Saturdays. She was arts editor for the 1929–1930 Monongahela High School Yearbook where her earliest efforts as a cartoonist can be seen in the lively caricatures of her school's students and teachers. Ormes drew and wrote throughout high school. Nothing momentous ever happens here." She graduated from high school in Monongahela in 1930. Ormes described the suburb in a 1985 interview for the Chicago Reader as "spread out and simple. Eventually, Jackie's mother remarried and the family relocated to the nearby city of Monongahela.
This resulted in the then six-year old Jackie and her older sister Dolores being placed in the care of their aunt and uncle for a brief period of time. Her father William, the owner of a printing company and movie theater proprietor, was killed in an automobile accident in 1917.
Jackie Ormes was born Zelda Mavin Jackson on August 1, 1911, in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, to parents William Winfield Jackson and Mary Brown Jackson.
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