Brian Fies

Brian Fies
Brian Fies
Pronunciation	[pronounced "feez" /ˈfiːz/]
Nationality	American
Occupation	Cartoonist
Notable work	Mom's Cancer; The Last Mechanical Monster; Whatever Happened to the World of Tomorrow?; 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/)^[1] is an American cartoonist. He is the creator of Mom's Cancer, which was the first webcomic to receive an Eisner Award.^[2] 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,^[3]^[4] as well as the Lulu Blooker Prize in its Comics category.^[5] The German edition of the graphic novel received the Deutscher Jugendliteraturpreis (German Youth Literature Prize) in the Non-Fiction category.^[6]^[7] Mom's Cancer was also nominated for a Quill Award^[8] and two further Eisner Awards.^[9]

Fies is also the creator of The Last Mechanical Monster, which was also nominated for an Eisner Award in 2014.^[2] Other works by Fies include Whatever Happened to the World of Tomorrow?^[10] 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.^[1]^[11]

Fies was given an Inkpot Award in 2018.^[12]

References

^ ^a ^b ^c Williams, David (2017-10-18). "He lost his home to the wildfire and poured his pain into a web comic". CNN.
^ ^a ^b Cruz, Larry (2014-07-10). "'The Last Mechanical Monster': No country for old villains". CBR. Archived from the original on 2021-01-28. Retrieved 2021-04-06.
^ "Previous Winners". www.harveyawards.com. Retrieved 2021-04-06.
^ Fies, Brian (2007-10-05). "Mom's Cancer Blog: What My Harvey Award Looks Like". Mom's Cancer Blog. Retrieved 2021-04-06.
^ "War book wins Blooker blog prize". BBC News. 2007-05-14. Retrieved 2021-04-07.
^ www.akj.de, AKJ-. "Mutter hat Krebs". Arbeitskreis für Jugendliteratur e.V. (in German). Retrieved 2021-04-06.
^ Fies, Brian (2007-10-12). "Deutscher Jugendliteraturpreis". Mom's Cancer Blog.
^ "The Quill Awards | The 2006 Awards". thequills.org. 2007-06-06. Archived from the original on 2007-06-06.
^ McElhatton, Greg (April 20, 2007). "2007 Eisner Award Nominees Announced". ComicsAlliance. Archived from the original on 2013-09-18. Retrieved 2021-04-07.
^ "Whatever Happened to the World of Tomorrow?". Wired. ISSN 1059-1028. Retrieved 2021-04-06.
^ Hoffman, Alex (2019-08-12). "Review: A Fire Story by Brian Fies". Sequential State. Retrieved 2021-04-06.
^ "Inkpot Award". Comic-Con International: San Diego. 2012-12-06. Retrieved 2021-04-06.