The Fies Files

Sad news from last night's Harvey Awards, announced at the Baltimore Comic-Con: my streak of successfully predicting the winners of awar...

Just before the Eisner Awards in July, I successfully predicted the winners in the two categories for which I was nominated. Neither of the...

When I shill, I do it honestly. If I didn't genuinely love the new book Star Trek 365 by Paula M. Block with Terry J. Erdmann, I wouldn...

She would have been 71 today. When I think of her, which is pretty often, I smile.

Yours, too. I've got a new candidate for "Coolest Picture Ever" today: an image shot by the Messenger space probe from 114 mil...

First, read yesterday's post to catch up. Ready? (By the way, I don't expect everyone to read these posts. Don't feel guilty fo...

Leaving a late comment on an old post , Anonymous asked me to "expand on the process of creating the benday dots" in Whatever Ha...

Just some bite-sized tapas today. One reader left a comment on an old post suggesting I write up a tutorial on how I did the "Ben Day...

Karen and I had a very nice time last night at a small, casual gathering to welcome writer-illustrator Mo Willems and his wife Cher as they...

I had a terrific time this morning speaking at a meeting of the Sonoma County Forum, a group of women community leaders who gather for brea...

Author and provocateur Christopher Hitchens is a better writer than I am. That became clear as I read this article from Vanity Fair describ...

Saw this, enjoyed it, thought of you. I know not everyone shares my cheery optimism about the World of Tomorrow. In fact, these days it seem...

You know the end of the Independence Day fireworks show, when they shoot off half their rockets in a booming, fiery frenzy of celebratory ec...