The Fies Files

Jim Keefe is a great cartoonist who has done a lot in his long, impressive career, including working as a staff artist for King Features Syn...

I've been corresponding with a student doing a master's dissertation who asked me about the use of color in Mom's Cancer. Hones...

Some artists are very particular about their art materials. I’d call myself mildly particular. In my experience, your paper, paint, ink, bru...

Me around age 14, holding a tempera painting I did of Dr. Strange. I didn't have much juvenilia even before my 2017 wildfire; now I don...

Until this morning, my publisher Abrams and I were working with an overseas publisher to print a foreign-language edition of  The Last Mecha...

My friends at the Cartoon Art Museum are holding an art auction this spring to celebrate the wonderful comic book (and Disney film but we...

Comics friend Tom Heintjes reminds us that "The Mechanical Monsters," the Superman cartoon on which my new book The Last Mechanica...

The talk I gave at CarrierCon pulled together bits of insights I've gleaned about what it takes to be a creative professional. How do yo...

"Beats Digging Ditches" Work in Progress: Some of my "Sixty-Second Sticky Doodles" that got the most feedback were on Pe...

"The dirty secret of comics is that a lot of it involves copy fitting." --Justin Green Book maps are on my mind these days. Th...