The Fies Files

One of what I intend to be a series of occasional essays on what I think about when I'm writing and drawing. I'm not saying this is ...

When we left for our long vacation, it felt like summer around here. We returned to autumn. Of course, the great thing about taking an 11-da...

"Editor Charlie," a character who occasionally appears in my posts, is my friend Charles Kochman, executive editor of my publisher...

As my six regular readers may recall, I've got this quirk about not announcing to the entire Internet that my home is unoccupied and av...

Well, I made my deadline, although a technical problem at my publisher's end (I think) over the weekend prevented me from uploading abou...

I've mentioned that I took on the first assistants of my career to help me finish WHTTWOT. Here's how that happened: . Coloring comi...

Today's Wednesday, right? I've lost track... I colored the final four pages by midday, and plan to spend the next day and a half dra...

A poem is never finished, only abandoned. --W.H. Auden As soon as I'm done typing this, I'll begin coloring the final 16 pages of WH...

Bob Thompson of The Washington Post has written probably the most comprehensive and best-sourced article I've ever read about the rise ...

I'm rerunning a post below on the topic of "trapping" that I originally wrote in August 2005, when it came up while we were re...

Fifteen minutes ago I drew the final inky jot on the final page of Whatever Happened to the World of Tomorrow? That doesn't mean my wor...

I like the Olympics. I'm still idealistic enough to think they're a little more than just another athletic event, which I wouldn...

I inaugurated my new blog by showing what I teasingly described as part of the new book's cover: All right. So picture that in hardcove...