The Fies Files

I don't have time to write this well but wanted to capture it before it wriggled away: Historically, smart characters have had a hard ...

This looks a lot like the 2012 softcover edition of WHTTWOT until you notice the red logo at the bottom . . . . As I may have written h...

Just wanted to share this lovely photo I found of the Evening Star following the setting Sun down behind a distant dusky mountain range. The...

See if this makes any sense . . . I've realized that my attitude toward comics is captured in the above matrix. At the upper righ...

Last night Karen and I dug through a few boxes of old photos, looking for one event in particular but finding much more than we counted on. ...

Writer Mark Evanier, whose blog is a daily stop of mine, has been posting a series of songs from a 1950s' record called Bugs Bunny...

A couple of months ago, in the middle of the night, a wind storm snapped a five-inch-thick limb off a tree in the backyard and plunged it th...

Comics Art is a magnificent new book by British writer and critic Paul Gravett. Published by Tate Publishing in the UK and available in ...

My pal Raina Telgemeier (anyone I know who's spent a year on the New York Times bestseller list is automatically "my pal") r...

You know the problem with 21st Century culture? People who are famous for being famous. I singled out the Kardashians in this post's tit...

When last I mentioned Mark Twain, more than two years ago, I'd just finished Volume 1 of his autobiography. Having now begun Volume 2, i...

Karen and I saw "Saving Mr. Banks" before Christmas. While I enjoyed it at the time and thought some of the performances were terr...