The Fies Files

I've already taken up too much of my blog and your attention lately bragging on my kids, to their dismay. I'm going to torture them ...

Some of my blog posts get written because two things just happen to find their way into my brain at the same time and make a connection. Thi...

The Graphic Novel Reporter has posted a swell interview with me about my book. Interviewer John Hogan and I had a very relaxed, friendly co...

Over on my book's new Facebook Fan Page , I've been having an unexpectedly good time compiling photos people send me of WHTTWOT ...

Mom's birthday. She would have been 70 years old today. . Of course I still miss her, and dream about her once in a while, and wish I co...

Yesterday's post about the young women who helped me color WHTTWOT reminded me of a topic I wanted to tackle at the time but didn't...

A cartoonist named Fies has a booksigning coming up August 29, and it's not me. . I've blogged about the four young women who assis...

Comics reviewer Don MacPherson took a look at WHTTWOT on his "Eye on Comics" blog and didn't entirely like what he saw. Whil...

This week's "Tom the Dancing Bug" comic by Ruben Bolling, which takes a look at how things might (or might not) had been diffe...

Hell. I know that must be a photo of Hell because I just joined Facebook. My friend Marion, a writer and one of a few people I trusted to ...

Just a note that I've signed up to be a "Cartoonist in Residence" at the Charles M. Schulz Museum in Santa Rosa, Calif., on J...

As a sequel to yesterday's post, my pal Mike Lynch offers some very practical advice for aspiring cartoonists on his blog today. Mike w...

I like to hang out at a couple of Internet watering holes dedicated to cartooning. The discussions are often interesting even when I don...