Brian Fies

Brian Fies
Born1960 (age 65–66)
NationalityAmerican
AreaCartoonist
Notable works
Mom's Cancer
The Last Mechanical Monster
A Fire Story
Awards
  • Eisner Award (2005)
  • Harvey Award (Best New Talent)
  • Lulu Blooker Prize (Comics category)
  • Deutscher Jugendliteraturpreis (German Youth Literature Prize, Non-Fiction category)
  • Inkpot Award (2018)

Brian Fies (pronounced "feez" /ˈfiːz/) is an American cartoonist.

Early life and influences

Fies "grew up on newspaper comics and superhero comic books"; his influences include Charles M. Schulz, Walt Kelly, Milton Caniff, Alex Raymond, Winsor McCay, Cliff Sterrett, Jack Kirby, John Buscema, Neal Adams, and Alex Toth.

His first job out of college was as a reporter for a small local newspaper.

Career

Fies is the creator of Mom's Cancer, which was the first webcomic to receive an Eisner Award. Fies won the Eisner in 2005 under the newly created category "Best Digital Comic". Mom's Cancer also won Fies a Harvey Award, in the Best New Talent category, as well as the Lulu Blooker Prize in its Comics category. The German edition of the graphic novel received the Deutscher Jugendliteraturpreis (German Youth Literature Prize) in the Non-Fiction category. Mom's Cancer was also nominated for a Quill Award and two further Eisner Awards.

Fies is also the creator of The Last Mechanical Monster, which was also nominated for an Eisner Award in 2014. Other works by Fies include Whatever Happened to the World of Tomorrow? and the 18-page webcomic A Fire Story (later expanded to a 154-page book), which recounts the devastation caused by California wildfires in 2017 which destroyed his home.

Fies was given an Inkpot Award in 2018.

Published works

References

  1. ↑ "Brian Fies: Born: 1960". Illustration History. Norman Rockwell Museum.
  2. 1 2 Williams, David (2017-10-18). "He lost his home to the wildfire and poured his pain into a web comic". CNN.
  3. 1 2 3 "How I Met Brian Fies and How the First SerioComics of Year 2 Finally Got Its Q&A!". SerioComics. Interviewed by Dave Cowen. June 13, 2025.
  4. 1 2 Cruz, Larry (2014-07-10). "'The Last Mechanical Monster': No country for old villains". CBR. Archived from the original on 2021-01-28. Retrieved 2021-04-06.
  5. ↑ "Previous Winners". www.harveyawards.com. Retrieved 2021-04-06.
  6. ↑ Fies, Brian (2007-10-05). "Mom's Cancer Blog: What My Harvey Award Looks Like". Mom's Cancer Blog. Retrieved 2021-04-06.
  7. ↑ "War book wins Blooker blog prize". BBC News. 2007-05-14. Retrieved 2021-04-07.
  8. ↑ www.akj.de, AKJ-. "Mutter hat Krebs". Arbeitskreis für Jugendliteratur e.V. (in German). Retrieved 2021-04-06.
  9. ↑ Fies, Brian (2007-10-12). "Deutscher Jugendliteraturpreis". Mom's Cancer Blog.
  10. ↑ "The Quill Awards | The 2006 Awards". thequills.org. 2007-06-06. Archived from the original on 2007-06-06.
  11. ↑ McElhatton, Greg (April 20, 2007). "2007 Eisner Award Nominees Announced". ComicsAlliance. Archived from the original on 2013-09-18. Retrieved 2021-04-07.
  12. ↑ "Whatever Happened to the World of Tomorrow?". Wired. ISSN 1059-1028. Retrieved 2021-04-06.
  13. ↑ Hoffman, Alex (2019-08-12). "Review: A Fire Story by Brian Fies". Sequential State. Retrieved 2021-04-06.
  14. ↑ "Inkpot Award". Comic-Con International: San Diego. 2012-12-06. Retrieved 2021-04-06.

Interviews