The Fies Files

[I try to start my day writing 250 words on anything. I’ll post one every Tuesday until I run out of good ones.] (You may remember this as s...

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

[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’ve taken four lengthy tra...

[I try to start my day writing 250 words on anything. I’ll post one every Tuesday until I run out of good ones.] When I set out to write and...

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

No one has been eagerly awaiting my thoughts on The Odyssey, but I have some anyway. Reaction I've read has been polarized--some very p...

[I try to start my day writing 250 words on anything. I’ll post one every Tuesday until I run out of good ones.] Today begins my third year ...

[I try to start my day writing 250 words on anything. I’ll post one every Tuesday until I run out of good ones.] When a movie studio wants t...

I shot this from the window of my plane yesterday. In the morning I left the Atlantic and by mid-afternoon was looking at the Pacific. What ...

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 ...