The Fies Files

Yesterday I had the honor and fun of being the opening keynote speaker at the three-day 2023 After The Fire USA Wildfire Leadership Summit, ...

I am reliably informed that today, Monday, Sept. 25, is National Daughters Day! As you may know, I have two of them. Also, in another twofer...

The Disneyland train station at the entrance to the park, with two tunnels to the left and right separating the real world from "the wo...

This is the most interesting and paradigm-shifting (by which I mean it changed the way I think) publishing-related news I've seen in a l...

My graphic medicine friend Matthew Noe tells me that the Network of the National Library of Medicine (NNLM) has named A Fire Story   one of ...

Hey, this slipped by me! The Rocketeer art I made as a fundraiser for the Cartoon Art Museum and Hairy Cell Leukemia research in memory of D...

A few weeks ago, cartoonist Thien Pham, writer Samuel Sattin, and artist Rye Hickman did readings and book signings at the Charles M. Schulz...

I'm pretty sure this is my sister. Honestly, she's looked better. I've learned late in the day that this is National Power Range...

First figs of the season! Our fig tree is still small--about six feet high and wide--but looks to be putting out dozens of figs this year. P...

Today's "Peanuts" strip, copyright 1976, brings up a couple of nice memories. Peppermint Patty muses about a shopping center w...

  This advice is making the rounds of cartooning circles. Steve Lieber is a successful graphic novelist and comic book artist, mostly superh...

A Peek into the Intimate Intellectual Life of a Long-Married Couple, Part 17: (I made pancakes for breakfast today. Later this morning, Kare...

My heart's breaking for victims of the Maui firestorm, which at this writing has killed at least 36. I didn't post earlier because I...