The Fies Files

Going aboard the Gray Ghost, with San Francisco in the background. The Hornet is berthed in Alameda, where they (used to) keep the nuclear w...

My favorite event on the comics convention calendar did not disappoint! LumaCon 2023, the best free little con I know, put on by librarians ...

Sign at the front door in 2019. Here's a nice article in the local paper about where I'll be tomorrow: LumaCon, my favorite comics...

Friday the 13th actually falls on a Friday this month, which was a recurring gag in my favorite comic strip of all time (with apologies to m...

A slice of mutant orange on a light box. Hey, kids, it's Mutant Monday!  While working at the food bank last Friday, Karen and I found a...

A Peek into the Intimate Intellectual Life of a Long-Married Couple, Part 16: We had pancakes for breakfast this morning. Karen started to g...

As long as I've been writing this blog, and the blog before this blog, which dates back to 2005, I've marked Christmas Eve by postin...

A Peek into the Intimate Intellectual Life of a Long-Married Couple, Part 15: Me: "I just found something interesting. For the past cou...

Photo by Ethan Chappel, used with permission because asking is the right thing to do. Last night the Moon glided between Earth and Mars, an ...

Comics friend Tom Heintjes reminds us that "The Mechanical Monsters," the Superman cartoon on which my new book The Last Mechanica...

I'm home from the Miami Book Fair with a quick photo dump. It was a good trip!  My panel with my editor Charles Kochman of Abrams Books ...

Hey, look who's doing a Toon Talk and book signing at the Cartoon Art Museum in San Francisco next Saturday! Spoiler: me! At 1 p.m. I...

This story will probably reveal more about me than I intend. Yesterday I went to a terrific local art supply store that offers a professiona...