Library of Congress -- Ceremony: Herblock Prize (2016): Mark Fiore -- Presentation:
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Description of Pictures: The Herb Block Foundation cordially invites you to The Herblock Prize Award Ceremony & Lecture.
Prize Winner: Mark Fiore
Lecturer: Mark Shields
Finalist: Ken Fisher, AKA Ruben Bolling, Author of the Weekly Comic Strip “Tom the Dancing Bug”
Presenters in sequence:
* David Mao, Acting Librarian of Congress
* Marcela Brane, President/CEO of the Herblock Foundation
* Mark Fiore, accepting the prize (and mentioning "Trump" only once)
* Clarence Page, Herblock Foundation board member
* Mark Shields, Keynote Talk
* Q&A: Mark Shields and Mark Fiore
Mark Fiore
Mark Fiore, who The Wall Street Journal has called “the undisputed guru of the form,” creates animated political cartoons in San Francisco. His work has appeared on the San Francisco Chronicle’s web site, Newsweek.com, Slate.com, CBSNews.com, MotherJones.com, NPR’s web site and is currently being featured on online news sites
ranging from KQED and Truthdig.com to The Progressive and DailyKos.com. Fiore’s political animation has been featured on CNN, Frontline, BillMoyers.com, Salon.com
and cable and broadcast outlets across the globe.
Beginning his professional life by drawing traditional political cartoons for newspapers, Fiore’s work appeared in publications ranging from The Washington Post to the Los Angeles Times. In the late 1990s, he began to experiment with animating political cartoons and, after a short stint at the San Jose Mercury News as their staff cartoonist, Fiore devoted all his energies to animation.
Mark Fiore was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for political cartooning in 2010, a Robert F. Kennedy Journalism Award in 2004 and has twice received an Online Journalism Award
for commentary from the Online News Association (2002, 2008). Fiore has received two awards for his work in new media from the National Cartoonists Society (2001, 2002), and in 2006 received The James Madison Freedom of Information Award from The Society of Professional Journalists.
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FIORE1_160524_014.JPG: [Mark Shields preparing his notes.
Most of it's crossed out but you can see...]
Thank you, Clarence [Page] -
As Henry VIII said to each of his six wives, don't worry, I won't keep you long --
Speaking of six wives, that would be the total number of [wives] in a Republican ticket of Donald Trump and Newt Gingrich -- [I] have to admit -- [I'm] kind of rooting for old Newt. He's rumpled, packing a few too many pounds.
FIORE1_160524_043.JPG: Clarence Page (right)
FIORE1_160524_046.JPG: Clarence Page and Mark Shields
FIORE1_160524_047.JPG: Marcela Brane and Mark Fiore
FIORE1_160524_050.JPG: Mark's dad
FIORE1_160524_067.JPG: David Mao, Acting Librarian of Congress
FIORE1_160524_163.JPG: Marcela Brane, President/CEO of the Herblock Foundation
FIORE1_160524_210.JPG: I keep reminding them that the presentation of the award has to happen in front of the podium but no....
FIORE1_160524_225.JPG: Mark Fiore
FIORE1_160524_325.JPG: Mark's wife is in the front row
FIORE1_160524_359.JPG: Clarence Page, Herblock Foundation board member
FIORE1_160524_484.JPG: Mark Shields, Keynote speaker
FIORE2_160524_106.JPG: Mark Shields @ Library of Congress ceremony awarding Herblock prize to Mark Fiore. Well before the GOP convention, he said he wasn't afraid of a Trump presidency. He said that he figured Trump would get bored after a few months and move on to a younger country.
FIORE2_160524_268.JPG: Reenacting the award presentation. Marcela Brane and Mark Fiore.
FIORE2_160524_269.JPG: Congratulations to Mark Fiore for winning the Herblock Prize at the Library of Congress ceremony on May 24, 2016. He's here with Marcela Brane, President/CEO of the Herblock Foundation.
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Wikipedia Description: Herblock Prize
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The Herblock Prize for editorial cartooning is an annual $15,000 after-tax cash prize, and a sterling silver Tiffany trophy. Designed "to encourage editorial cartooning as an essential tool for preserving the rights of the American people through freedom of speech and the right of expression," it is named for the editorial cartoonist Herblock and sponsored by the The Herb Block Foundation.
The rotating three-judge panel that determines the award-winner is typically composed of the previous year's winner, another editorial cartoonist, and a scholar of editorial cartooning. The award is typically presented some time between March and May of each year, at the Library of Congress.
Each award presentation is accompanied by a guest lecturer who discusses contemporary social issues "in the spirit of Herblock." Previous Herblock Prize guest lecturers include Ben Bradlee, President Barack Obama, Sandra Day O’Connor, Tom Brokaw, Tim Russert, Ted Koppel, George Stevens, Jr., Jim Lehrer, Garry Trudeau, Gwen Ifill, and Bob Woodward.
Finalists for the award have been named since 2011; they receive a $5,000 after-tax prize.
History
When Herb Block died in October 2001, he left $50 million with instructions to create a foundation to support charitable and educational programs that help promote and sustain the causes he championed during his 72 years of cartooning. The Herb Block Foundation is committed to defending the basic freedoms guaranteed all Americans, combating all forms of discrimination and prejudice, and improving the conditions of the poor and underprivileged through the creation or support of charitable and educational programs with the same goals. The Foundation is also committed to improving educational opportunities to deserving students through post-secondary education scholarships and to promoting editorial cartooning through continuing research. The Herb Block Foundation awarded its first gra ...More...
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2016 photos: Equipment this year: I continued to use my Fuji XS-1 cameras but, depending on the event, I also used a Nikon D7000.
Seven relatively short trips this year:
two Civil War Trust conference (Gettysburg, PA and West Point, NY, with a side-trip to New York City),
my 11th consecutive San Diego Comic-Con trip (including sites in Utah, Nevada, and California),
a quick trip to Michigan for Uncle Wayne's funeral,
two additional trips to New York City, and
a Civil Rights site trip to Alabama during the November elections. Being in places where people died to preserve the rights of minority voters made the Trumputin election even more depressing.
Number of photos taken this year: just over 610,000.