The 5th Annual BREATHE Workshop was held via Zoom on May 10, 2022.

Brian Fies - Cartoonist Author - "A Fire Story: An Illustrated Account of Survival and Resilience"

Brian Fies is a writer and cartoonist. The day after he and his wife, Karen, lost their home in Northern California's Tubbs Fire, Brian began writing and drawing "A Fire Story". Posted online, the comic went viral, and was seen by more than 3 million people. Brian expanded a fire story into a full-length graphic novel published by Abrams Comicarts in 2019; an updated and expanded edition was published in 2021. His other graphic novels are Mom's Cancer, Whatever Happened to the World of Tomorrow, and The Last Mechanical Monster. Brian's work in comics has received several honors, including the comics industry's Eisner, Harvey and Inkpot awards, as well as the American Astronautical Society's Emme award, Germany's Deutscher Jugendliteraturpreis, and a television Emmy award. He lives in his rebuilt home, north of Santa Rosa.