The Fies Files

"Throwback Thursday" (TBT) is the day when Facebook folk post old photos of themselves. I haven't done it before, but seeing a...

. . . sadly, without me. The Baltimore Comic Con is this weekend, and since I'm on the other side of the continent and not wealthy,...

I hadn't intended to write anything on the great comic book artist Jack Kirby, who would've been 97 today if he hadn't died i...

I was working on my webcomic, The Last Mechanical Monster, and found some forgotten files that I thought might make a good, quick, process ...

I just finished Roz Chast's graphic novel Can't We Talk About Something More Pleasant? There are words I don't like to use becau...

For my birthday a few months ago, my daughters gave me a certificate good for one free admission to the Mary Blair exhibition at the Walt...

The Charles M. Schulz Museum celebrated its 12th anniversary with free admission and ice cream cake last night. Had a nice low-key time talk...

The aircraft carrier USS Hornet was built during World War II, served in the Korean and Vietnam Wars, and recovered Apollo 11 and Apollo ...