The Fies Files

Bite-sized morsels heading into the weekend. Blogging's still sparse while I work hard on my day job (looks like I might get an importan...

Two commercials with remarkable similarities. Enjoy, I did: And have a nice Springy weekend, y'all. .

Begrudging blogging. I'm still chipping away at "Mystery Project X"; have thumbnailed (laid out, sketched, and placed dialog f...

I hear it's lovely. Should be a terrific setting for an academic conference on the subject of Graphic Medicine. Nice poster art, too. I...

No, I didn't get any, silly. I didn't put out anything last year (which is not to presume I'd have gotten nominated if I had). B...

My friend Mike Peterson, whose Comic Strip of the Day blog provides some of the most thoughtful non-snarky comic strip criticism around, al...

A quick report on my trip to the WonderCon comics convention in San Francisco yesterday. As I mentioned on my Facebook page (why oh why won...

In keeping with my long-standing policy of not telling burglars that my home stands empty and waiting, I didn't want to blog about my la...

Long, LONG-time readers of my blog(s) may recall occasional mentions of my modest collection of original comic art. With the exception of tw...

Here's a neat twist on a concept that's been floating around the Web a while: "Camera and Pencil," in which artist Ben He...

I didn't mean to post two "Star Trek" items in a row (sorry, non-fans) but today is the 80th birthday of The Man, The Legend, ...

This is for Mike Lynch. Nobody else needs to bother pressing "Play," unless you want to watch a street musician play the "Sta...

CAESAR The ides of March are come. SOOTHSAYER Ay, Caesar; but not gone. Twenty-three years ago today, my life forever split into "befor...