Mark Fiore is an American liberal political cartoonist specializing in Flash-animated editorial cartoons.

Fiore lives in San Francisco, California and his cartoons have appeared in numerous American papers and a number of websites. 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,^[1] and he currently makes animated editorial cartoons for his website, [1], where 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.^[2] In their review of Attitude 3, the American Library Association's Booklist called Fiore's cartoons a standout for their "unique and personal" vision. ^[3]

Contents 1 Recurring characters 2 Awards 3 References 4 External links

[edit] Recurring characters

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

• Buster Bunker The Friendly Nuke - a nuke
• Knuckles - a slow man in an executioner's mask who loves torturing Guantanamo prisoners
• Flamey McGassy
• Ouchie - a talking bandaid
• Captain Killmore
• Snuggly the Security Bear - a rather sadistic teddy bear who puts a positive spin on domestic spying and wiretaps
• Right-wing Ralphie - a squat lawyer with pixie wings who fights for homosexuals to gain restitution for being "forced" into marriage. After the passage of California's Proposition 8, he celebrates the "protection of heterosexual marriage"
• Buzzie the Fly - a Cajun fly who updates the nation on the New Orleans reconstruction, especially the living conditions of Katrina refugees

He also did a parody of The Family Circus, with a child version of Lewis "Scooter" Libby.^{[citation needed]}

[edit] Awards

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

[edit] References

[edit] External links

• Mark Fiore's Personal Home Page
• NCS Awards
• RFK Awards

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