The Fies Files

A reminder: next Saturday is CarrierCon, a pop culture (anime, cosplay, gaming, etc.) convention aboard the USS Hornet Sea, Air and Space M...

Related? I've been corresponding with a professor who's writing a paper on "intermediality," or how different media connec...

Here's a very day-making surprise: my latest graphic novel, The Last Mechanical Monster, made the American Library Association's 20...

Home from a date night that went so wrong it almost circled back around to right.... Once a year our local business folks hold Restaurant We...

Everybody on Facebook is posting photos of themselves at age 21. I don't know why. But I'm in. This is me fiddling around in my univ...

Today's PSA: I didn't watch the Grammy Awards but wanted to see the performances everybody's been talking about. Couldn't fi...

I recently mentioned in passing that I had no "juvenilia," or artwork done when I was young, because pretty much everything I'...

I spent most of yesterday at the sincerest little comics convention I know, LumaCon in Petaluma, Calif., a free event organized by librarian...

This is my favorite photo from the first LumaCon in 2015, by my daughter Robin. Those kids are 9 years older now. As are we all. Sigh. Satur...

Long post. A social acquaintance wants to do a graphic memoir and, unlike a lot of people who ask about that, looks to me like they have the...

From time to time, someone like a doctor, professor, or student will cite me in an academic paper, usually for Mom’s Cancer but sometimes A...

Awards season is coming around, so all my cartoonist friends check out the Reubens, Eisners, and anything else you might want to submit for....

Watching Celebrity Jeopardy last night (we're not regular Jeopardy viewers but sometimes you need something to eat pizza by), in the cat...