Sunday Satire by Mark Fiore.

August 1, 2010 3:03 PM

Mark Fiore is a political cartoonist. Mark Fiore won a Pulitzer Prize this year. Mark Fiore hasn't been featured on the Blue since 2006 (previously). Mark Fiore has animated some amusing cartoons about recent events: Wikileaks, Conflict Minerals, Gaza Flotilla, BP (2) (3), War on Drugs, Climate Gate, Guantanamo, Haiti, and more!.
posted by tybeet (15 comments total)

Mark Fiore's wife once tried to astroturf one of his animations as a Metafilter FPP, if my memory serves me right.
posted by dunkadunc at 3:08 PM on August 1, 2010 [2 favorites]

I stopped paying attention to his cartoons when I realized all his cartoons seem to follow the same formula, and use the same annoying sound effects.
posted by Philosopher Dirtbike at 3:16 PM on August 1, 2010 [3 favorites]

Aah, here's the FPP in question.
I find Mark Fiore rather facile and unfunny, which might be why his wife felt the need to self-link.
(I always picture his readers as being those middle-aged "sensible liberal" types who think Prairie Home Companion is the funniest stuff out there and seem to be running in slow-motion.)
posted by dunkadunc at 4:10 PM on August 1, 2010 [1 favorite]

Well, these are new to me. Heck the whole concept of political cartoon as animation is new to me. So I like them! Thanks!
posted by bitteroldman at 4:11 PM on August 1, 2010

bag on Mark Fiore all you want, but why you gotta go dissin Garrison Keillor?
posted by mikoroshi at 4:13 PM on August 1, 2010 [1 favorite]

Who?
posted by R. Mutt at 5:26 PM on August 1, 2010 [1 favorite]

He submitted an app to the Apple store, but got rejected because it made fun of people. Then he won the Pulitzer and Apple said the rejection was a mistake and asked him to resubmit. I bought it because I wanted to support the idea of free speech, etc. It's a ok app with ok cartoons, but I don't quite think it's that amazing. And the animation stuff makes it take way too long to get to a point.
posted by cjorgensen at 5:59 PM on August 1, 2010

The perfect political cartoon
posted by jcruelty at 6:58 PM on August 1, 2010

oops broken link... take 2

The perfect political cartoon
posted by jcruelty at 7:02 PM on August 1, 2010 [4 favorites]

all his cartoons seem to follow the same formula, and use the same annoying sound effects.

The medium is the message!
posted by stbalbach at 7:10 PM on August 1, 2010

Both these things are bad. The fact that the App Store nixed it made the App Store look bad, and the fact that it won the Pulitzer makes the Pulitzer look like it's setting the bar pretty low these days.
posted by Trochanter at 8:21 PM on August 1, 2010

I greatly appreciate the Manchurian Candidate reference in the "The More Things Change ... " animation.
posted by The Great Big Mulp at 9:31 PM on August 1, 2010

This guy refutes the idea that left leaning folks are funny.

By contrast, here is a reliably funny animated cartoonist.
posted by bearwife at 10:11 AM on August 2, 2010

By contrast, here is a reliably funny animated cartoonist.

Gotta say, her cartoons are little more than stereotypical political cartoonage with a few extra frames thrown in. Hardly animations, especially considering those extra frames don't do anything for them. And from what I can tell, what she's drawn can often be predicted from the title.
posted by tybeet at 10:56 AM on August 2, 2010

Fiore is pretty hit or miss for me, but I notice that I miss him and go back every time I drop him from my RSS feeds, which tells me something.
posted by immlass at 11:52 AM on August 2, 2010