The Fies Files

While many of my cartooning colleagues gathered this weekend in San Diego for Comic-Con International, I was across the country in Baltimore...

[I try to start my day writing 250 words on anything. I’ll post one every Tuesday until I run out of good ones.] Sometimes a particularly me...

  One of my favorite humor writers, Merrill Markoe, posts a Substack newsletter, one of the recurring features of which is "Who Wore It...

[I try to start my day writing 250 words on anything. I’ll post one every Tuesday until I run out of good ones.] One of my breakthroughs in ...

A front-page article in my hometown paper today, written by a reporter from the Sacramento Bee paraphrasing another article from Forbes, d...

[I try to start my day writing 250 words on anything. I’ll post one every Tuesday until I run out of good ones.] “Adulting” is a newish word...

[I try to start my day writing 250 words on anything. I’ll post one every Tuesday until I run out of good ones.] I hear that schools don’t t...

SCIENCE! We got a couple of blaring earthquake alerts on our phones at 8:10 this morning, braced for impact, and felt nothing. It was a 5.6 ...

[I try to start my day writing 250 words on anything. I’ll post one every Tuesday until I run out of good ones.] Surveys say people dread pu...

[I try to start my day writing 250 words on anything. I’ll post one every Tuesday until I run out of good ones.] A meme I like* compares who...

Here's a podcast I did with my friend Jennifer Gray Thompson about the firestorms of 2017, which destroyed my home among many others and...

Old people love to complain about young people, and I always defend them. The kids I encounter are almost always smart, caring, involved, an...

[I try to start my day writing 250 words on anything. I’ll post one every Tuesday until I run out of good ones.] In the 1980s and ‘90s, the ...