Mark Fiore (cartoonist)

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Mark Fiore
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Mark Fiore at the 2011 International Journalism Festival
Born1970
California, United States
NationalityAmerican
Area(s)Editorial

Mark Fiore is an American political cartoonist specializing in Flash-animated editorial cartoons, whom The Wall Street Journal called "the undisputed guru of the form". [1]

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Fiore lives in San Francisco, California, and his cartoons have appeared in numerous American papers and a number of web sites. He studied political science at Colorado College and was a staff cartoonist for the San Jose Mercury News . He left newspapers for animated online comics in 2001, [2] and he currently makes animated editorial cartoons for his web site markfiore.com, [3] from which he also sells DVDs of his cartoons. He is a member of the Association of American Editorial Cartoonists.

Fiore's comics were included in Ted Rall's Attitude 3: The New Subversive Online Cartoonists, along with other web-comics such as Dinosaur Comics , Diesel Sweeties , Fetus-X , and The Perry Bible Fellowship . [4] In their review of Attitude 3, the American Library Association's Booklist called Fiore's cartoons a standout for their "unique and personal" vision. [5]

He won a Pulitzer Prize in 2010, the first ever for his genre of editorial cartoons.

Recurring characters

In some of his Flash cartoons, Fiore makes use of several characters more than once. Some of those characters include:

Awards

Fiore was awarded an Online Journalism Award by the Online News Association and the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism. He was nominated for the National Cartoonist Society New Media Award in 2000 and he won it for 2001 and 2002. He also won the 2005 Robert F. Kennedy Journalism Award in the category of cartoons.

Pulitzer Prize

Fiore won the 2010 Pulitzer Prize for Editorial Cartooning. [6] He is the first cartoonist to win an editorial cartooning Pulitzer for an entry of entirely online animations, [7] and his winning work appears on SFGate.com, the San Francisco Chronicle web site. The Pulitzer Prize committee, in a statement, said that "his biting wit, extensive research and ability to distill complex issues [on the web site] set a high standard for an emerging form of commentary." [8]

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References

  1. Moroney, Robin (July 1, 2007). "These Are Uncertain Times for Cartoonists". The Wall Street Journal . Retrieved September 3, 2015.
  2. Summers, Nick (December 18, 2006). "Satire: Singing a Different 'Toon'". Newsweek , p. 14.
  3. markfiore.com
  4. Rall, Ted (2006). Attitude 3: The New Subversive Online Cartoonists , New York: Nantier, Beall, Minoustchine. ISBN   1-56163-465-4.
  5. Flagg, Gordon (August 2006). "Attitude 3: The New Subversive Online Cartoonists". Booklist , p. 23.
  6. The 2010 Pulitzer Prize Winners: Editorial Cartooning. The Pulitzer Prizes.
  7. Cavna, Michael. "2010 PULITZERS: SFGate's Mark Fiore wins cartooning's award". The Washington Post , April 12, 2010. Accessed April 29, 2010.
  8. "Animated cartoons win Pulitzer for Mark Fiore [ permanent dead link ]". forum.bcdb.com, April 13, 2010.