Brian Fies

Oct 10, 2024 | electricliterature.com | Roz Chast |Brian Fies |Raymond Briggs |Tim Bird

After my mum died, I decided I had to do something with her paintings. She’d painted as a hobby throughout her life, and they’d accumulated in drawers all over the house. I felt that if I didn’t do something with them, who else would? I imagined they’d eventually become my kids’ problem and they’d get quietly disposed of when they no longer had room to store them. The thing about the paintings that I particularly loved was the stories they reminded me of. The way they were a backdrop to my childhood.

May 15, 2023 | kirkusreviews.com | R. Crumb |Brian Fies

THE WORLD INSIDE YOUR HEAD by Eliot Borenstein ‧ A detailed, wonky examination of a significant period in the history of Marvel Comics. A generation of Marvel writers who explored themes of interiority and subjectivity in the 1970s bridged the gap between Spider-Man in the 1960s and the modern graphic novel. So argues Borenstein, whose comics coming-of-age occurred during this fertile era.

Jan 30, 2023 | kirkusreviews.com | Darrin Bell |R. Crumb |Brian Fies

by Darrin Bell ; illustrated by Darrin Bell ‧ A graphic memoir explores the author’s experiences with and understanding of racism. When he was 6, Bell, a contributing cartoonist to the New Yorker and recipient of the 2019 Pulitzer Prize for his editorial cartoons, was playing with a neon-green water gun when a policeman told him to drop his weapon. Earlier that day, he’d asked his mother why his toy had to be green.