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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 Criticism & Editing

[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 of my breakthroughs in becoming a professional writer, back when I was a cub reporter, was learning to not take criticism personally. The closer your art is to your heart, the harder it is to stand by while a colleague or editor rips into it, but sometimes that’s the job. 

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Average rating: 4.06 · 4,855 ratings · 830 reviews · 7 distinct works • Similar authors
A Fire Story: A Graphic Memoir
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Mom's Cancer
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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.”
― Brian Fies
tags: cancer, family
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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.”
― Brian Fies
tags: life
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“I would give a million bucks to have seen my mother say "cute shoes" to naked Ashley Judd.”
― Brian Fies
tags: actress, humor, shoes
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