Career
Fiore lives in San Francisco, California, and his cartoons have appeared in numerous American papers and a number of web sites. 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. Fiore"s comics were included in Ted Rall"s Attitude 3: The New Subversive Online Cartoonists, along with other web-comics such as Dinosaur Comics, Diesel Sweeties, Fetus-X, and The Perry Bible Fellowship.
In some of his Flash cartoons, Fiore makes use of several characters more than once.
Some of those characters include:
Suzie Newsykins
Dogboy & Mr. Dan—an anthropomorphic dog chats with his friend Mr.
Dan, who is rabidly conservative
Buster Bunker The Friendly Nuke—a nuke
Knuckles—a slow man in an executioner"s mask who loves torturing Guantanamo prisoners
Flamey McGassy
Ouchie—a talking bandaid
Captain Killmore
Snuggly the Security Bear—a rather sadistic teddy bear who puts a positive spin on domestic spying and wiretaps
Right-wing Ralphie—a squat lawyer with pixie wings who fights for homosexuals to gain restitution for being "forced" into marriage. After the passage of California"s Proposition 8, Ralphie celebrates the "protection of heterosexual marriage".
He is a caricature of Ralph Reed, the former Religious Right leader
Buzzie the Fly—a Cajun fly who updates the nation on the New Orleans reconstruction, especially the living conditions of Hurricane Katrina refugees.
