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Pronunciation | [pronounced "feez" /ˈfiːz/] [1] |
Nationality | American |
Occupation | Cartoonist |
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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]