The Fies Files

I've been posting my favorite bit of musical doggerel by "Pogo" cartoonist Walt Kelly on Christmas Eve as long as I've bee...

Home from the Miami Book Fair, the largest of its type of thing in the country--bigger than the L.A. Times Festival of Books, which I att...

Now it can be revealed: a few months ago my pal Andrew Farago asked if I'd do a drawing for an auction to raise money for the Cartoo...

With Tom at last year's Comic-Con International in San Diego. Like many in the comics world, I'm stunned to hear of the death o...

Thursday Update: Well, we’re in an Evacuation Warning Zone, our natural gas (space heating and hot water) is off, and the place is a mes...

Michael Cavna of the Washington Post wrote to ask how I was doing, and then wrote an article about it .

Wednesday Update: our neighborhood made it through the night, which was an important milestone. Winds that could have pushed the fire into t...

Tuesday Morning Report: We're fine, still hunkered down with Laura and Robin in their apartment in Novato. Karen brought home delicious ...

Early Monday morning update for worried friends: my family and I are safe and will continue to be. We are 35 miles from danger, unless li...

Update: Thanks for all you good thoughts and comments via Facebook, they help! Here's what's up with us: Until now, the Kincade...

Son of a bitch. Here I am fleeing for my life from another fire. Again. We expect we'll be OK, but we thought that last time, too. Not...

Live Worms Gallery on Grant Ave., the LitQuake event site. A good, arty, intimate space for a book reading. Last night's LitQuake ...

In my new studio! Press Democrat photo by John Burgess. My hometown newspaper, the Press Democrat , interviewed me for a special issue ...