The Fies Files

I've been working on my next big comics project for a while, and hit a milestone I wanted to share. I finished drawing the first half of...

Cartoonist Al Jaffee, best known for his decades of work on MAD Magazine, died today at the age of 102. That's a good long run but, some...

Here's a question I get asked from time to time, and so try to answer from time to time. A neighbor wants to write a book. Her grandchil...

Today is National Pencil Day. First thought: That's stupid. How important can a pencil be? Second thought: I can actually think of a cou...

Two unrelated things I did/will do: This morning I preached the gospel of Graphic Medicine to a group of about 70 physicians and faculty of ...

Nearly two years ago, I pre-ordered a toy playset from an outfit called Mezco Toyz . Price was no object because I really had no choice: the...

 Historically, the Ides of March were a Roman religious holiday, a deadline for settling debts, and a bad day to be Julius Caesar. To me, to...

Until this morning, my publisher Abrams and I were working with an overseas publisher to print a foreign-language edition of  The Last Mecha...

We arrived early, to find lawn signs ringing the community center! Yes, of course I took one (or three) home. I'd say yesterday's ta...

My friends at the Cartoon Art Museum are holding an art auction this spring to celebrate the wonderful comic book (and Disney film but we...

If you watched as many Warner Bros. cartoons growing up as I did, the song "Powerhouse" by Raymond Scott is embedded in your DNA a...

My magic lantern, with its orange-bordered glass slide in place. You just slide it sideways by hand to change the image. I have a fascinatio...

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...