A Fire Story

Brian Fies’s A Fire Story (Harry N. Abrams, 2019–present) is a deeply personal, nonfiction graphic novel that documents the author’s experience losing his home in the 2018 Camp Fire in Paradise, California. Written and illustrated entirely by Fies, the work expands on his original webcomic to include the stories of other survivors, offering a raw, human-scale account of disaster, loss, and recovery. It stands as a vital, empathetic document of climate-driven catastrophe, notable for its unflinching yet compassionate portrayal of a community’s resilience.