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Brian Fies



Brian Fies is a science writer, illustrator, and cartoonist whose widely acclaimed first graphic novel, Mom's Cancer, won the 2005 Eisner Award for Best Digital Comic (the first web comic to win the award and inaugurate this new category), the Lulu Blooker Prize for Best Comic, the Harvey Award for Best New Talent, and the German Youth Literature Prize, among other awards and recognition. He lives in northern California. ...more

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250 Words on Double-Deckers


[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 had good and bad jobs, but the one that always makes me smile is a job I had in college: driving double-decker buses. 

The University of California, Davis, had (and still has) a student-run bus system called Unitrans. It was centered on campus but served the entire city. What mad

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Published on November 18, 2025 05:30
Average rating: 4.05 · 4,672 ratings · 805 reviews · 6 distinct worksSimilar authors
A Fire Story: A Graphic Memoir

4.20 avg rating — 2,487 ratings — published 2019 — 4 editions
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Mom's Cancer

3.94 avg rating — 1,703 ratings — published 2006 — 16 editions
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Whatever Happened to the Wo...

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“All i have to offer is this: i hold a valid driver's license and I know the way to the hospital. I can hang curtains, flip a mattress, load a dishwasher. I can deliver a pizza, lend a steadying arm, laugh at a morbid joke and compliment a bad wig and I know the metric system. I doubt that's gonna be enough.”
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“No one will care more about your life than you do and no one is better qualified to chart its course than you are. You are the expert.”
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“I would give a million bucks to have seen my mother say "cute shoes" to naked Ashley Judd.”
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