Mark Fiore, Contributing Cartoonist

Mark Fiore provides the following information about himself: Fiore, whom The Wall Street Journal recently called “the undisputed guru of the form,” creates animated political cartoons from an undisclosed location somewhere in San Francisco. His work appears regularly in a wide variety of online news Web sites and is seen by millions, probably even scrillions.

After a short stint at the San Jose Mercury News as the staff cartoonist creating traditional political cartoons in a terribly stifling windowless office, Fiore happily fled the print world in 2001 to devote all of his energies to creating animated work.

Mark Fiore was awarded a Robert F. Kennedy Journalism Award and has also received an Online Journalism Award from the Online News Association and the Columbia Graduate School of Journalism. With two awards from the National Cartoonists Society for his work in new media under his belt, Fiore also seems to excel at writing in the third person.