what's the story, ink-stained fiore?>> reporter: the story is that 40-year-old mark fiore is the first internet animator to win a pulitzer prize for political cartooning. his work appears only on line, on his own web site, plus that of the "san francisco chronicle," national public radio and other outlets. fiore's range is broad, his perspective left of center. >> we tackle war, warming, health care, torture, spying and the impact of the great economic implosion. his cartoons were among the first to go on-line, but today there's a growing body of animated internet satire with their roots in print. >> first year in high school, i drew a little cartoon in class, and it was politically oriented, and the teacher looked at it and he said, "oh, that's a political cartoon. you know, there are jobs like that." >> reporter: 25 years later, his pulitzer is the first for an animated cartoon, and signals a new acceptance of on-line material. >> i like to think that i won not because it's new and different, and because it uses media