The Fies Files

(This rerun from February 2009 might be a bit too "inside baseball" for some, but gets a lot of search-engine visits. This is the ...

(This post is a rerun from October 2007 that still draws some visitors.) . I don't do many "How To" posts about cartooning. I ...

(Today's rerun isn't very old--October 2009--but it gets a lot of traffic for obvious reasons, and I had fun writing it. Most gratif...

(Another rerun post that people using search engines seem to like, this one from October 2008. Although I hint at the end that I might follo...

Interrupting the reruns to celebrate the best literary news I've heard in a long time: the autobiography of Mark Twain is about to be pu...

(This post is a rerun from November 2005, when Mom's Cancer was at the printer and a few months from its debut. My cartooning technique...

(This post, a rerun originally posted in my old blog in June 2008, is a favorite of mine.) . Many people who aren't from California and ...

(This post is a rerun from September 2008, combining two posts I wrote on "How I Approach Cartooning" that seemed to be pretty wel...

. It's been quiet here at the Fies Files lately--a combination of more work than I have time to do and a lack of ideas to blab--sorry, b...

The big AMGEN Tour of California bicycle race, whose prestige has grown in its few years of existence to make it one of the world's gre...

Fantasy and comics artist Frank Frazetta died today. I never met Mr. Frazetta, and was a casual fan in the way that most who grew up read...

This is really nice. Publisher Lena Tabori put together a list of her seven favorite mother-themed books "as a mom and a publisher...

Never got around to watching the first three (that is, the real first three) "Star Wars" movies? I gotcha covered.