Mark Fiore

Mark Fiore is a visual journalist who turns complex issues into accessible cartoons, animation and biting satire. His work has appeared on the San Francisco Chronicle’s website, Politico, Slate.com, CBSNews.com, NPR.org and many other outlets across the globe. 

Fiore was staff cartoonist at KQED, where he created daily topical single-panel cartoons and collaborated with reporters and editors on longer pieces of graphic journalism and animation. Beginning his career drawing traditional editorial cartoons for newspapers like The Washington Post and Los Angeles Times, Fiore turned to animation in 2001, when he pioneered the new form of animated political cartoons. 

He won the 2010 Pulitzer Prize for Editorial Cartooning for animated cartoons published in SFGate.com. He was also a Pulitzer Prize finalist in 2018. Fiore is a two-time winner of the Robert F. Kennedy Journalism Award.