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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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Career Fair Day

I just spent four hours at a local high school's Career Fair with my pal, cartoonist Lex Fajardo, who is the creator of the Kid Beowulf comics series and editor at the Schulz Studio. Here's why I think that was a good use of my time:

1. Talking shop with Lex. 

2. Offering an alternative. We were surrounded by cops, firefighters, soldiers, engineers, grocery store managers, and many other career

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Published on March 05, 2026 16:04
Average rating: 4.05 · 4,761 ratings · 822 reviews · 7 distinct worksSimilar authors
A Fire Story: A Graphic Memoir

4.19 avg rating — 2,526 ratings — published 2019 — 4 editions
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Mom's Cancer

3.94 avg rating — 1,726 ratings — published 2006 — 16 editions
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Whatever Happened to the Wo...

3.62 avg rating — 377 ratings — published 2009 — 8 editions
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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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