Mark Fiore (cartoonist)
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". 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, and he currently makes animated editorial cartoons for his web site markfiore.com, 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 "," along with other web-comics such as "Dinosaur Comics", "Diesel Sweeties", "Fetus-X", and "The Perry Bible Fellowship". In their review of "Attitude 3", the American Library Association's "Booklist" called Fiore's cartoons a standout for their "unique and personal" vision. 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. He is the first cartoonist to win an editorial cartooning Pulitzer for an entry of entirely online animations, 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."