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About Mark Fiore:
About MarkFiore.com:
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Mark Fiore, who 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 their staff cartoonist creating traditional political cartoons in a terribly stifling fluorescent 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.
About MarkFiore.com:
Once just the home for Mark Fiore’s animated political cartoons, MarkFiore.com is now much more than a traditional website. Now you can comment on a particular cartoon, discuss issues with other site visitors, or with Mark Fiore, and become more active in the entire site.
Visitors and members of MarkFiore.com can also phone in with their own opinions and rants—which will be promptly posted on the "Shout Back!" section of the site as audio files for others to hear!
One of the most exciting new features of the site is “Do Something!” Watch for the “Do Something!” link below select cartoons or just check out the “Do Something!” page, where you’ll find ways to turn cartoons into action. Why just get angry at the government while watching a cartoon that highlights the plight of Walter Reed patients? Now you can find the resources to volunteer, donate and make a difference.
MarkFiore.com now has updating news feeds from major news outlets so you can stay up to date on the world’s craziness throughout the day. And if you ever wondered what goes into a Mark Fiore animation, just click on the “more info” link below the animation to access the specific news stories and editorials that spawned the cartoon.
Of course, if you just want to watch cartoons, don’t worry. You can still do that! Only now, you can watch them full-screen and sort the cartoons by subject matter in the cartoon browser.
The MarkFiore.com store has also expanded to include prints from select animations, and the new “Satire Club” gives you an opportunity to get the DVD of your choice and monthly goodies from Mark Fiore.
Okay, enough! It’s me. I can’t bear writing in the third person anymore!
Do Something!
Comments
Lots your doing Right...
Lots your doing Right... But...
Hey Mark
I am sure you have bigger fish to fry right now - but when things calm back down - I'd love to chat with you about satire and storytelling. Your stuff is great and your prize is well deserved.
Eric Wolf
http://www.artofstorytellingshow.com
great combination of funny
great combination of funny and well-done animation with highly political content. I love your work!
greetings from europe!
Please don't mistake our
Please don't mistake our CONGRATULATIONS as altruistic behavior. Being co-founders of a cartoon site that bypasses any form of traditional distribution, we are thrilled that a "self-syndicated" cartoonist won the Nobel Peace Prize. Wow. What an accomplishment.
Bruce Kasanoff and Jim George
http://www.drawthedog.com
The happiest "Spot" on the Web, where dog cartoons draw themselves
Congratulations on the
Congratulations on the Pulitzer, Mark! I'm glad NPR turned me onto your site it's awesome! I hope you read the email I sent you earlier -- it seems like a perfect issue for you to cover... major ecolological catatrophe, corporate greed and propaganda, two-faced governments, unknowing public. Nautilus Minerals and deep sea mining. I hope you check into it.
Bruce
so proud of you, Mark (my
so proud of you, Mark (my email bounced back)! congrats:) you deserve it---
I'm honored to be your singer-for-hire. Ahhhh, I knew him when....
Stephanie Riggio
Congratulations on your
Congratulations on your insight, wit, leadership and your well-deserved award. As a design professor I've shown your work to my Motion Graphics class and will be delighted to spread the good news of your Pulitzer.
Bill Kerr
Dominican University, River Forest, IL
Mark, tells about the tech
Mark, tells about the tech stuff behind your site. I love the video player skin.
Congratulations on winning
Congratulations on winning the Pulitzer prize.
Thanks so much to everyone
Thanks so much to everyone for the Pulitzer congratulations, I'm still a little stunned! I really appreciate your support and visits to the site, and my clients' sites. I'll be doing a blog posting soon to give you the inside scoop on all of today's craziness.
Thanks again!
-Mark
Congratulations, Mark! As a
Congratulations, Mark! As a big fan of your work for many years now, I was really pleased to read of this well deserved honour.
mark, thanks for your
mark, thanks for your wonderful work...
on the pope cartoon...
i wish there were subtitles for the singing words.
i can't make them out and i'd love to know what they say.
:)
http://www.youtube.com/watch#
http://www.youtube.com/watch#playnext=1&playnext_from=TL&videos=-4PhB0Xb...
Iraq for Sale
Hi Mark. I was thoroughly disgraced with KBR and the likes after watching this 4min clip. Perhaps there's a cartoon in it.
Keep up the awesome work!
You Rock
You Rock
Wow Mark what an
Wow Mark what an entertaining Web site!! Seriously great. I love the Shout Back page. Never seen (heard) anything like it. It's a little bit of Americana. Full range of opinions from A to..., well, B. You must be doing something right!
Cheers - Comrade Canuck
I saw your "tea bag" cartoon
I saw your "tea bag" cartoon on NPR.org and was disappointed that they posted such an unthoughtful, off-target, and intellectually disingenuous animation.
Oh please he was going light
Oh please he was going light on them we all know those troglodytes are also made up of racists, hell where were they when bush was taking away their civil rights and liberties?
WELL I'M WAITING!
Why do you think many are so
Why do you think many are so pissed off? Obama promised change and so far, everything Bush did wrong he has done even more of:
IE more spending (deficits), extensions of the Patriot Act, continuing of bank/company bail outs, etc. and instead of trying to do something about the economy (IE breaking up too big to fail companies, financial regulations, etc.) the agenda has been cap/trade and health care overhaul (while important, food and a roof I think many would consider more so). Torture? Sure we will not do it instead we will let Pakistan do it for us (RE recently captured combatants in the hills of Afghanistan/Pakistan during a joint operation which they will hold for “questioning”. I can’t help but wonder if Pakistan has the same rules for interrogation that we do and who the combatants would rather be questioned by?) Stop the war? We are still in Iraq and more troops are headed to Afghanistan.
IMO so many contradictions in policy and misplaced priorities I can understand their frustration. Faces change, with the faces, the only other thing that does is what special interest is getting the hand out today. Whether you are left or right, you would have to be incredibly naive to deny that.
Also for the record, usually when some one claims racism or is looking for it, they only have to go as far as the closest mirror. Either that or they don't have a leg to stand on in their arguments and so play the "easy way out" race card. Just an FYI…
I couldn't agree more with
I couldn't agree more with your "faces change" description and the other major mistakes this administration has made. Moreover, the race card is just the escape door for intellectually lazy individuals (i.e. the author of “Oh please he was going light”).
My other frustration is jealousy that people have for people that make more money than them. I got my finance degree, work my butt off in my current professional job at a large tech company, and am about to start a part-time MBA program while continuing to work. I’m tired of community organizers/trial lawyers as well as other ignorant people in decision-making roles trying to talk economics and business – at the same time, running doctors and patients out of the healthcare system. It is time for the adults that understand these disciplines to run the country!
The cliché encouragement that many have given children through the years is more true today than ever: “Anybody can become the President of the United States.”
Hello Mark. I am F.
Hello Mark. I am F. Allen Norman, publisher of the Alexandria Daily Poop and "handgunner" on Justintv.com. Also I blog as "Alexcabbie" on the Opencarry.org website. It is from the Opencarry.org website that I learned of your blog and your videos showing the talking pistol rejoicing in firearms deaths.
I have expressed to my fellows my belief that your heart is in the right place. None of the firearm owners I know is sitting on the edge of his chair waiting for an opportunity to take a life. In fact, we avoid situations - if reasonably possible - where we might have to use deadly force. But I carry a firearm, and if I had been at Virginia Tech the slaughter would have stopped with me had the killer confronted me. Killers prefer "soft targets". So for that matter do those who rob and rape. I have no doubt the a-hole who shot up the Holocaust Museum in DC thought he was going into a "soft target" and did not know there were armed security personnel.
Of particular interest to me was your take on "gringo guns"; a canard if ever there was one. Fully automatic weapons are not "cheaply available" in the United States and furthermore the drug cartels would not be able to buy them if only the USA would permit the production and sale - think tax benefits too - of marijuana; which we can grow better cultivars of than anyone in the world.
All this stuff and more is addressed in the Opencarry.org forum. Become a mamber and identify yourself. If the opportunity is there almost any of us would love to take you to the range for an afternoon of shooting and discussion; and you may be hearing from some of my bretherin shortly. Come to OCDO and speak to us, Mark. We would love to hear from you.
Mark, I don't necessarily
Mark,
I don't necessarily agree with your views and I am a little disappointed by the way your very generally characterize both the right and left. With that said, I do enjoy the depth and ideas you present. Hopefully your material will continue to prompt more people to think about the issues and try to engage in some real, logical discussion and debate.
You are my new template for
You are my new template for success. Though i've got animations I haven't made any satirical or narrative cartoons yet for PunditFight.com but I think you've shown it can be done.
Awesome work Mike
Embed doesn't appear to be
Embed doesn't appear to be working for latest video. I tried comment on your embed page at http://www.markfiore.com/comment/reply/1163 but I'm getting a "Validation error, please try again. If this error persists, please contact the site administrator." error there. So not sure what's up. I only just joined the site, perhaps something isn't synchronized yet?
okay, that's no longer a
okay, that's no longer a problem. but I don't see the embed option anymore.
To Mark Fiore, Please
To Mark Fiore,
Please include A Share-link icon for Facebook.com for all your cartoons, etc.
Do you know that there are over 100 million of us on the facebook and the size doubles ....every 6 month!!
Thanks,
I'm working on it, and have
I'm working on it, and have been getting lots of requests from Facebookers. Thanks for the suggestion!
-Mark
Where are my fan club
Where are my fan club materials?
Ooh, I'll look into that.
Ooh, I'll look into that. Feel free to send me an email with your email and I will track down what happened. My apologies.
Thanks,
-Mark
(mark@markfiore.com)
I adore your sense of humor?
I adore your sense of humor? I'm glad I have the opportunity to join your likeminded website with "the others". Others with the same sense of humor and see things that are going on NOW through your same seeing wit.
Bar none.....You the man!
I threw away my TV and I get
I threw away my TV and I get all important information I need from his cartoons.
Thanks!
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Is there an archive section
Is there an archive section of the site? I miss "Crystal Clear" from late 2002 or early 2003.
Because...
"There's an awful lot we don't know an awful lot we may never know, we've got to think differently about standards of proof here!"
Amazing website, keep up the good work!
Really!.... Ive been a fan
Really!.... Ive been a fan for many years and i wanted to show some friends of the "earlier funnier work". Seriously... can I have a link to the archive???
thanks mark
Who does the voices? And why
Who does the voices? And why aren't they credited?
I am a fan of Mark and his
I am a fan of Mark and his great cartoons since a couple of years. Since I discovered him I threw away my TV and I get all important information I need from his cartoons.
Thanks from Paris, FRANCE
Mark - I am a big fan. Your
Mark - I am a big fan. Your cartoons were very helpful in the dark days of 2004. I love your Bush, and his "he-he". Spot on.
I am a teacher, is there a way to embed your cartoons into my web site? Just wondering.
Pete D.
I like the site, I check out
I like the site, I check out the new posts every week. I think the cartoons are funny and informative (even though I don't always agree). Nice job, and keep it up!!
P.S. Do comments disappear after a while?
I like your animation, Mike.
I like your animation, Mike. Keep the good work, i wish you everything best!
anne
Your political shorts are
Your political shorts are cutting edge! We laugh because it's funny AND we laugh because it's true!!!
I love this website. I
I love this website. I almost want to become president so that I could see Mark's cartoon version of me.
Keep up the good work!
It's been awhile since I've
It's been awhile since I've visited your site (unfortunately) and although it's wonderful to get caught up on your work, it's most disappointing that one can no longer send a single URL for a particular animation. That isn't necessary and there are ways to work Flash and HTML to facilitate this.
Think of it: I love the piece on "speaking intell" but have no way to direct someone to it. They'd have to use the scrolling horizontal "matrix."
With all due respect, not well thought out.
That being said, here's hoping you get that well-deserved Pulitzer some day.
Thanks for your great
Thanks for your great feedback, and glad you like my work! As far as sending a link, it is possible-- just click on the "permalink" button that pops up below the thumbnails when you click on one. I'll probably make that more obvious in the near future so I don't have to explain my poor design :-)
And thanks much for the Pulitzer vote!
-Mark
You're political cartoons
You're political cartoons are awesome. Can you do a cartoon about either of the following topics: subprime mortgages, the credit crisis, or the impending recession? Thanks
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