Brian Fies

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Brian Fies
Born1960 (age 65–66)[1]
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/)[2] is an American cartoonist.

Early life and influences

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Fies "grew up on newspaper comics and superhero comic books";[3] 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.[3]

His first job out of college was as a reporter for a small local newspaper.[3]

Career

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Fies is the creator of Mom's Cancer, which was the first webcomic to receive an Eisner Award.[4] 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,[5][6] as well as the Lulu Blooker Prize in its Comics category.[7] The German edition of the graphic novel received the Deutscher Jugendliteraturpreis (German Youth Literature Prize) in the Non-Fiction category.[8][9] Mom's Cancer was also nominated for a Quill Award[10] and two further Eisner Awards.[11]

Fies is also the creator of The Last Mechanical Monster, which was also nominated for an Eisner Award in 2014.[4] Other works by Fies include Whatever Happened to the World of Tomorrow?[12] 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.[2][13]

Fies was given an Inkpot Award in 2018.[14]

Published works

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References

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Interviews

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