The Fies Files

Just dropped on my porch: one (1) copy of my forthcoming The Last Mechanical Monster, flown from the printer with a brief detour to New York...

In addition to hosting an in-person Sketch-A-Thon at Comic-Con, the Cartoon Art Museum does a virtual Sketch-A-Thon in which patrons can com...

Comic-Con Photo Dump! We had fun. I saw some friends but not all I'd hoped to. On Thursday, I had nice conversations with Tom Richmond, ...

Editor Charles Kochman teases me just before I go to join him at Comic-Con with photos of "The Last Mechanical Monster" in print! ...

  Seems like I'll only be home from Chicago for about 15 minutes before turning around and heading to San Diego for Comic-Con Internatio...

Here's a photo dump from the 2022 Graphic Medicine Conference in Chicago. I haven't made it to the conference every year, but I'...

I realize nobody's clamoring for a graphic novelist's take on the first image from the James Webb Space Telescope. Nevertheless.... ...

"Blurbs" are a sordid but necessary bit of the authoring racket. You try to convince the most impressive people you can find to sa...

One of my very favorite parts of the publishing process: checking proofs. These are pages of a book printed on the actual paper and press th...

Majestic Mount Hood. Karen and I are home from a very busy, beautiful long weekend in Oregon's Columbia River Gorge as guests of Hood Ri...