The Fies Files

If you've been outside after dark the past month and had clear skies to the east, you must have noticed the planet Jupiter, the brightes...

Long-time readers of my blog know what's coming, a Christmas tradition here since ought-six. Merry Christmas and Happy New Year to all, ...

  It took longer than I hoped and more work than I expected, but at last I'm happy to offer a special, limited-edition collection of...

Organizers of the Fourth (!) International Conference of Comics and Medicine have now set a time and place, and issued a Call for Papers. T...

I've been remiss, and almost forgot to keep a promise. Back in September I was a guest on Jordan Rich's late-night radio talk ...

Atop this morning's e-mail stack were some helpful recommendations for books that, based on my shopping and buying habits, Amazon though...

I don't know how it happened so quickly, but it's again that time of year when I beg friends, family, fans, and random passers-by t...

I'm seeing little geographic clusters in my visitor count and have received a couple of e-mails that tell me some college students are r...

To assuage my gnawing guilt for not blogging enough (day job, worked all weekend, etc. etc.), today I reach back to a little obscurity I pos...

I recently got an e-mail query that prompted me to look up and repost this piece from March 2010 on "breaking in." I think it'...

After this, I'll give it a rest... Saturday was Neil Armstrong Remembrance Day aboard the USS Hornet Museum. In addition to a full a...

Came across a few more photos of our work on the USS Hornet last Sunday (see previous post) that I wanted to share. I know these may not int...

Sunset on the Bay I hinted on Facebook that I'd spent much of last weekend "where they keep the nuclear wessels" which, a...