The Fies Files

Christmas has Charlie Brown and the Grinch. Halloween has the Great Pumpkin. But for my money, there's only one television program that ...

Raina Telgemeier is a talented cartoonist, a nice person, and a friend--as good a friend as you can be with someone you sat next to at an a...

It may not look like much, but I've been waiting most of my life to see a picture like this. The Hubble Space Telescope has taken the fi...

I had a very nice time speaking to a women's group affiliated with a local synagogue yesterday evening (as you can see in the photo abov...

Karen and I went to the Schulz Museum last night for a members' reception and talk by the much-honored cartoonist Mell Lazarus, creator ...

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 ...

Karen and I just spent a terrific time with Editor Charlie and his fiancee Rachel, who flew from New York to the West Coast for a friend...

Halloween is a favorite holiday for my family and we had a good one. The weather forecast called for rain, but we got a nice break between s...

I thought some of you might like this. There's a passage in Whatever Happened to the World of Tomorrow set in 1945 in which my characte...

Sorry I haven't been as attentive as I'd like. It's just a combination of having regular boring ol' work to keep me busy and...

... that I find strangely familiar. And yet ... not. This could go either way. I remain wary but hope for the best.

Cheers, Paul! . You may not know the name Paul Giambarba or his nom de plume Giam Barba (unless you were reading my old blog when I wrote...

My daughter Laura will be mortified that I'm announcing she just got hired to draw a weekly comic strip for her college's student ne...