Maggie Thompson

MAGGIE’S WORLD BY MAGGIE THOMPSON Maggie’s World 035: Changes As 2015 began to wrap up, I was thinking about the assortment of wonderful comics released during the year—and that led…

MAGGIE’S WORLD BY MAGGIE THOMPSON Maggie’s World 034: It’s EPIC! I recently became caught up in a conversation with someone who sneered that, while he was a devoted fan of…

MAGGIE’S WORLD BY MAGGIE THOMPSON Maggie’s World 033: BOO! Did you see the recent Blood Moon? Did you just buy the DVD of the first season of iZombie, as the second…

MAGGIE’S WORLD BY MAGGIE THOMPSON Maggie’s World 032: 55 Years and Counting September. It’s a pivotal point—as exemplified by the start of the school year near Labor Day. Also: Labor…

MAGGIE’S WORLD BY MAGGIE THOMPSON Maggie’s World 031: Comic-Con Takeaways This year, I found myself fascinated by the way old and new approaches kept merging for me at Comic-Con International:…

MAGGIE’S WORLD BY MAGGIE THOMPSON Maggie’s World 030: Comic-Con Memories When Archie Andrews and Chuck Clayton had a great time at San Diego’s convention on the cover of Archie Giant Series…

MAGGIE’S WORLD BY MAGGIE THOMPSON Maggie’s World 029: Uncovering Comics When I was pulling comic books off the rack in 1947 to decide which to favor with my weekly dime,…

MAGGIE’S WORLD BY MAGGIE THOMPSON Maggie’s World 028: Comics Introductions “You know graphic novels. What one should we read?” I was attending a meeting of an area book club, and…

MAGGIE’S WORLD BY MAGGIE THOMPSON Maggie’s World 027: That’s The Spirit! “It’s very hard to trace back to the first influence I had as a cartoonist,” Jules Feiffer wrote in…

MAGGIE’S WORLD BY MAGGIE THOMPSON Maggie’s World 026: Strength Health Aptitude Zeal … A character whose adventures launched 75 years ago is back in the news again, and I’m guessing…

MAGGIE’S WORLD BY MAGGIE THOMPSON Maggie’s World 025: For the Record In October, I was lucky enough to attend the “Legacy: Watercolors by David Finn” retrospective at the Wally Findlay…

MAGGIE’S WORLD BY MAGGIE THOMPSON Maggie’s World 024: Tricky Business “I re-used old story plot formulas—not stories in the full sense. I thought I was revising the locale and characters…