The Fies Files

An overview of the main room at the Petaluma Recreation Center. Other vendors and events were set up in surrounding rooms and outdoor spaces...

From the mailbag: my copy of a new book titled Keywords/Keyimages in Graphic Medicine, edited by Lisa Diedrich and Briana Martino, which Pe...

[I try to start my day writing 250 words on anything. I’ll post one every Tuesday until I run out of good ones.] I’m fascinated by mechanica...

I'm not cool enough to shoot an unboxing video, so how about an unboxing photo? "Mr. McFly! Mr. McFly! This just arrived! I think i...

[I try to start my day writing 250 words on anything. I’ll post one every Tuesday until I run out of good ones.] I’ve been called for jury d...

I have a bookmark folder that is simply titled "Happy." It contains about 50 links guaranteed to make me smile. It occurred to me ...

[I try to start my day writing 250 words on anything. I’ll post one every Tuesday until I run out of good ones.] We have an excellent art su...

As Elvis Costello sang, "What's so funny about peace, love, and understanding?" Made a little good trouble in downtown Santa R...

Jim Keefe is a great cartoonist who has done a lot in his long, impressive career, including working as a staff artist for King Features Syn...

[I try to start my day writing 250 words on anything. I’ll post one every Tuesday until I run out of good ones.] I have little patience for ...

[I try to start my day writing 250 words on anything. I’ll post one every Tuesday until I run out of good ones.] I’ve written two nonfiction...

Every Christmas Eve since 2005--20 years now!--I share one of my favorite bits of whimsy from possibly my favorite comic strip, Walt Kelly...

[I try to start my day writing 250 words on anything. I’ll post one every Tuesday until I run out of good ones.] Author John Koenig coined t...