Brian Fies (pronounced "feez" ) is an American cartoonist. He is the creator of ''

Mom's Cancer ''Mom's Cancer'' is an autobiographical webcomic by Brian Fies which describes his mother's fight against metastatic lung cancer, as well as his family's reactions to it. ''Mom's Cancer'' was the first webcomic to win an Eisner Award, winning in ...

'', which was the first webcomic to receive an Eisner Award. Fies won the Eisner in 2005 under the newly created category " Best Digital Comic". ''Mom's Cancer'' also won Fies a

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, in the Best New Talent category'','' as well as the

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in its Comics category. The German edition of the graphic novel received the

Deutscher Jugendliteraturpreis The (German Youth Literature Award) is an annual award established in 1956 by the Federal Ministry of Family Affairs, Senior Citizens, Women and Youth to recognise outstanding works of children's and young adult literature. It is Germany's only ...

(German Youth Literature Prize) in the Non-Fiction category. ''Mom's Cancer'' was also nominated for a

Quill Award The Quill Award was an American literary award that ran for three years in 2005-2007. It was a "consumer-driven award created to inspire reading while promoting literacy." The Quills Foundation, the organization behind the Quill Award, was support ...

and two further Eisner Awards. Fies is also the creator of ''The Last Mechanical Monster'', which was also nominated for an Eisner Award in 2014. Other works by Fies include ''Whatever Happened to the World of Tomorrow?'' 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. Fies was given an

Inkpot Award The Inkpot Award is an honor bestowed annually since 1974 by Comic-Con International. It is given to professionals in the fields of comic books, comic strips, animation, science fiction, and related areas of popular culture, at CCI's annual c ...

in 2018.

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