Mark Fiore

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Mark Fiore

Mark Fiore (* 1970 in California ) is an American political cartoonist best known for animated Flash cartoons. He lives in San Francisco and is a member of the American Association of Editorial Cartoonists .

Life

Mark Fiore grew up in California and Idaho , a combination that sharpened his understanding of political theories. He studied political science at Colorado College and graduated in 1991 with a diploma. The commencement speaker for his class was Dick Cheney .

Mark Fiore started out as a cartoonist for various newspapers from the Washington Post to the Los Angeles Times . In the late 1990s, he began experimenting with animation while serving as a cartoonist for the San Jose Mercury News . After he was fired from Mercury News for not bowing to pressure to be gentler on George W. Bush , he began to devote himself only to that area. He started as a freelancer and has since sold his cartoons to other websites or television stations. One of his first customers was the cbs.com website . He hit the nerve of the times and was one of the first cartoonists to publish political caricatures as animations.

His work has been used on the websites of the San Francisco Chronicle , Newsweek , Slate.com , CBS News , MotherJones.com , NPR, and currently KQED , among others . They can be seen on television on CNN , Frontline , Bill Moyers Journal and Salon.com, among others.

In 2010, he released a mobile app called NewsToons , which was initially rejected by Apple because it made fun of public people and this contradicted the terms of use. After articles were published on various platforms, including NeimanLab and Wired , there was a wave of protest and the app was added to the Apple Store .

In 2016 he won the Herblock Prize , named after Herb Block from the Washington Post .

style

The Wall Street Journal once called him "the undisputed guru" of the animated political cartoon. In fact, he started his career when caricature and animation co-existed. He was a pioneer for a number of other artists. Mark Fiore sees himself as a supporter of the Free Speech Movement and rejects any form of influence and censorship. Among other things, he defends the pictorial representation of Mohammed and the works of Charlie Hebdo . For his own works, however, he makes sure to treat other cultures, ethnic groups and religions with respect.

Awards

Fiore's work has received the Online Journalism Award from Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism and the Online News Association . He also received the National Cartoonist Society's New Media Award twice .

In 2010 Fiore received the Pulitzer Prize for editorial caricatures for his animated cartoons on sfgate.com, which, in the opinion of the jury, set a high standard for an outstanding form of commentary with "biting wit, extensive research and the ability to summarize complex topics" .

literature

  • Ted Rall: Attitude 3: The New Subversive Online Cartoonists . NBM, 2006, ISBN 978-1-56163-465-1 , pp. 76–81 ( google.de [accessed on March 6, 2018]).

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c About. Official website, accessed March 6, 2018 .
  2. ^ Mark Fiore, Pulitzer Prize Winner, Talks To Colorado College. Huffington Post , May 25, 2011, accessed March 6, 2018 .
  3. ↑ a b c Michael Cavna: This year's Herblock Prize winner says 'Trump talks a big game,' but Obama's no beacon of press freedom . In: Washington Post . May 24, 2016, ISSN  0190-8286 ( washingtonpost.com [accessed March 6, 2018]).
  4. ↑ Sandy Northrop: American Political Cartoons: From 1754 to 2010 . Routledge, 2017, ISBN 978-1-351-53245-7 , pp. 173 ( google.de [accessed on March 6, 2018]).
  5. ↑ Laura McGann: Apple approves Pulitzer winner's iPhone app; cartoonist now free to mock the powerful on cell phones. NiemanLab, April 20, 2010, accessed March 6, 2018 .
  6. ↑ Apple App Store Bans Pulitzer-Winning Satirist for Satire . In: WIRED . ( wired.com [accessed March 6, 2018]).
  7. ↑ Mark Fiore Presented 2016 Herblock Award. Cartoonistrights.org, accessed March 6, 2018 .
  8. ↑ Dean P. Turn Bloom: Prize Winning Political Cartoons: 2011 Edition . Pelican Publishing Company, Inc., 2012, ISBN 978-1-58980-888-1 , pp. 16 ( google.de [accessed on March 6, 2018]).
  9. ^ The 2010 Pulitzer Prize Winners. Editorial cartooning on pulitzer.org (English), last checked on August 10, 2011
  10. ↑ Laura McGann: Mark Fiore can win a Pulitzer Prize, but he can't get his iPhone cartoon app past Apple's satire police. NiemanLab, April 15, 2010, accessed March 6, 2018 .
personal data
SURNAME Fiore, Mark
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American political cartoonist
DATE OF BIRTH 1970
PLACE OF BIRTH California