The Fies Files

In 2006, Abrams ComicArts published Mom's Cancer, about my mother's treatment for metastatic cancer. The story had already gotten s...

[I try to start my day writing 250 words on anything. I’ll post one every Tuesday until I run out of good ones.] Nerd Debate Day! In my opin...

Karen wakes before I do and has standing orders to roust me out of bed if she sees anything interesting in the pre-dawn sky. Today was one o...

[I try to start my day writing 250 words on anything. I’ll post one every Tuesday until I run out of good ones.] One consequence of the wild...

[I try to start my day writing 250 words on anything. I’ll post one every Tuesday until I run out of good ones.] When I was about 12, my par...

[I try to start my day writing 250 words on anything. I’ll post one every Tuesday until I run out of good ones.] Exactly one year ago today,...

Former Mythbuster Adam Savage has posted his fourth video exploring my favorite aircraft carrier museum, the USS Hornet - Sea, Air and Space...

There's something important I've wanted to get off my chest for 35 years, and I figure today is the day. There is a scene in "B...

As I mentioned last week, I signed up to do art commissions to support the Cartoon Art Museum in San Francisco while Comic-Con International...

[I try to start my day writing 250 words on anything. I’ll post one every Tuesday until I run out of good ones.] When my sister and I were v...

I had a good time talking A Fire Story at the Mill Valley Public Library last night. Got about three dozen people, which I think is a great...

Former Mythbuster Adam Savage posts his third in a series of videos exploring my favorite aircraft carrier museum, the USS Hornet Sea, Air a...

I saw the new Superman movie today. I approached it with some wariness because people whose opinions I respect seemed to either love it or h...