Maggie Thompson

MAGGIE’S WORLD BY MAGGIE THOMPSON Maggie’s World 047: Food for Thought Maybe you’ve decided that 2017 is the year you take control of what you’re eating. Nourishment has been a…

MAGGIE’S WORLD BY MAGGIE THOMPSON Maggie’s World 046: Retreads Travel back with me now … back … back … back … 55 years … Autumn 1961 School had started. Among…

MAGGIE’S WORLD BY MAGGIE THOMPSON Maggie’s World 045: Capes I recently received this communication: “I have a question. I think it’s probably pretty broad but didn’t know if you had…

MAGGIE’S WORLD BY MAGGIE THOMPSON Maggie’s World 043: Comic-Con Memos Wow. Another year, another Comic-Con was coming, and I had a clever idea. What if I carried a mini notebook…

MAGGIE’S WORLD BY MAGGIE THOMPSON Maggie’s World 042: Comic-Con College Or … Campus You Want, Campus You Got The Comic-Con 2016 Toucan Tip of the Day #8 is titled “The…

MAGGIE’S WORLD BY MAGGIE THOMPSON Maggie’s World 041: QLRM GSV XOFY! In today’s comics world, there seems to be an ever-expanding population of websites, user groups, Facebook fan pages, and…

MAGGIE’S WORLD BY MAGGIE THOMPSON Maggie’s World 040: Great Power “Good grief!” Obviously, that exclamation was in wide circulation long before Charles Schulz used it as an expression of dismay…

MAGGIE’S WORLD BY MAGGIE THOMPSON Maggie’s World 039: 2016 Fanniversary 55 Last year in September, I celebrated the 55th anniversary of the sparks that were soon to ignite the tinder…

MAGGIE’S WORLD BY MAGGIE THOMPSON Maggie’s World 038: The Little Red Hen We know the story, right? The little red hen finds the wheat, asks her friends for help planting…

MAGGIE’S WORLD BY MAGGIE THOMPSON Maggie’s World 037: Villainy Again and again, comics fans tend to focus on heroics: Which good guy or gal is better, is nicer, has a…

MAGGIE’S WORLD BY MAGGIE THOMPSON Maggie’s World 036: Goofy Heroics of the Code When characters in masks and capes fought villainy in the early days of comic books, their goals…