The Fies Files

I thought I'd do a post on lettering, seeing as how I've been nominated for an Eisner Award for it and all. I've touched on the ...

Jimmy Fallon marks the 20th birthday of the Hubble Space Telescope , possibly the most productive instrument in the history of science since...

"David Wasting Paper" is a blog by a self-described geek who asks cartoonists both famous and obscure the same set of questions an...

All right, this is one of the Top Five Coolest Things that's ever resulted from my semi-career in comics: cartoonist Guy Gilchrist, who ...

Pal Mike Lynch pointed me toward a blog post by Sherm Cohen that offers "Griffy's Top 40 List on Comics and Their Creation" ...

The hosts of the venerable Comics Coast to Coast podcast --Brian Dunaway, John Sanford, and Justin Thompson--just posted an hour-plus interv...

Nominations for the 2010 Eisner Awards (the Oscars of the comics business) were announced this afternoon and, well, it looks like I'm u...

My two girls and I had a great time at WonderCon 2010 in San Francisco yesterday. As I'd hoped, it was a smaller, more humane version o...

As usual, I'm probably the last person with an Internet connection to discover something keen, in this case a webcomic called "Axe ...

Got a couple more blue-red anaglyphs for you today--not particularly clever, artistic, whimsical or anything, just more in a series of on-go...

Three bite-sized bits that floated to the top of my brain today . . . Yesterday was Karen's and my twenty-mfmmfpth anniversary, which we...

My recent experiments making 3-D photos inspired me to go for the ultimate: a person. Since the only person hanging around my office/studio...

Comic book writer Kurt Busiek penned a great essay on breaking into the writing business . His main point is that most successful people mak...