The Fies Files

Inside the Rec Hall/Pavilion/University Credit Union Center. Hasn't changed a bit. Wallowing in some nostalgia this weekend, as Karen an...

If you ever get a chance to do a favor for Karen Green, don't hesitate!  Karen, the curator of comics and cartoons at Columbia Universit...

Reading the many tributes to the late comic book artist John Romita Sr., whose influential work I admired very much, a lighter realization w...

I saw this on a friend's feed this morning and it made me laugh: the fine folks who make Styrofoam once sent MAD Magazine a scary lawyer...

The mighty Columbia. The beauty of the Gorge is hard to capture in a photo. It's impossible not to stand on its banks and think, "T...

In the unlikely event you're near the town of Stevenson, Washington in the Columbia River Gorge on Thursday night, I will be there too a...

I had a good time at Geek Out Napa Valley on Saturday, a small first-time comics convention--I'm calling it a "micro-con"--put...

Just a couple of days ago, I was extolling the virtues of a good obituary. Now I'm writing one, knowing it won't be good enough. I j...