The Fies Files

There's a neat new TV commercial for Allstate Insurance that gives me a good excuse to repurpose a blog post I wrote more than three yea...

Both my blog and original "Mom's Cancer" webcomic site are getting a big boost in hits today due to an article at The Onion...

A few more bite-sized morsels: * * * My previous post touching on how most author's lose control of their stories the moment they sell t...

Opening April 2, it's "Diary of a Wimpy Kid: The Wrath of Khan." Something like that . . . Back in October, while I sat eatin...

The list of things I just don't get grows ever longer. Sometimes it's my fault: I haven't kept up, something slipped past me, I ...

Just a few odds and ends, none of which offers more than a bite-sized morsel: * * * Over the weekend I read The Geography of Bliss by Eric ...

Another in a haphazard and probably tedious series of posts describing what I'm thinking about when working on a graphic novel. Lately I...

My Cartoonist-in-Residence gig at the Charles M. Schulz Museum and Research Center turned out to be a pretty extraordinary afternoon, excee...

I've gradually stopped citing book reviews here on my blog, instead using my WHTTWOT Facebook Fan Page to point them out when I find th...

From my very first post in July 2005, one of my main reasons for blogging has been to share and document how a graphic novel gets made. A fe...

If you're in the neighborhood of the Charles M. Schulz Museum and Research Center in Santa Rosa, Calif., next Saturday, January 9, drop...

Although I celebrate the traditional U.S. Thanksgiving in November, here in Blogworld I take the opportunity of New Year's Eve to expres...

Back in July , I wrote about our poor sick kitty Marbles, who'd been diagnosed with thyroid trouble and kidney failure. She was acutely ...