The Fies Files

Here's a morsel of whimsy that's become a Christmas tradition around these parts. Sing along; you know the tune (I'm not sure...

"The dirty secret of comics is that a lot of it involves copy fitting." --Justin Green Book maps are on my mind these days. Th...

Pete Conrad, Dick Gordon and Alan Bean, the crew of Apollo 12 Tomorrow, November 14, is "SCE to AUX Day," one of the obscurer...

In 1962, President John F. Kennedy invited a group of Nobel Prize winners to dinner and joked, "This is the most extraordinary collect...

An Internet friend brought to my attention a new graphic novel being published in the U.K. titled The Inflatable Woman, in which cartoonist...

I just realized 20 seconds ago that I've been blogging for a bit over 10 years. I began my previous blog, the "Mom's Cancer Blo...

I feel guilty. Nine years ago, I had a shot at preventing this Donald Trump nonsense and didn't take it. Now it's all my fault. ...

Here's how I got into the lucrative museum display game. In 2012, I built my first interactive display for a museum. My daughter Laura...

I'm home from three days at the sixth international Comics & Medicine Conference hosted by the University of California, Riversi...