Bio
Pulitzer Prize-winning cartoonist Mark Fiore creates in the San Francisco Bay Area, fertile ground for political satire. His work has appeared in the San Francisco Chronicle and SFGate.com, Politico, Newsweek.com, TheRecount, Slate.com, CBSNews.com, MotherJones.com and NPR’s web site.
Fiore was staff cartoonist for KQED for six years, while his animation was being featured on DailyKos.com, The Progressive and other online news websites. His political animation has appeared on Frontline/POV, Bill Moyers Journal, Salon.com and cable and broadcast outlets across the globe.
Beginning his professional life by drawing traditional political cartoons for newspapers, Fiore’s work appeared in publications ranging from the Washington Post to the Los Angeles Times. In the late 1990s, he began to experiment with animating political cartoons and, after a short stint at the San Jose Mercury News as their staff cartoonist, Fiore devoted much of his energy to animation.
Growing up in California, Fiore also spent a good portion of his life in the backwoods of Idaho. It was this combination that shaped him politically. Mark majored in political science at Colorado College, where, in a perfect send-off for a cartoonist, he received his diploma in 1991 as commencement speaker Dick Cheney smiled approvingly.
Mark Fiore was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for political cartooning in 2010 and was a Pulitzer finalist in 2018. He won the Herblock Prize in 2016, a Robert F. Kennedy Journalism Award in 2019 and 2004, and has twice received an Online Journalism Award for commentary from the Online News Association (2002, 2008). Fiore has received two awards for his work in new media from the National Cartoonists Society (2001, 2002), and in 2006 received The James Madison Freedom of Information Award from The Society of Professional Journalists.
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