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, it was the cover that drew me to each in turn. That’s what the cover was designed to do. But, while I did pull each […]

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 one of the members threw this challenge to me. It doesn’t happen often, but I was overwhelmed at the size of the challenge and at […]

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 the March 1961 issue of Playboy, “but I think the most important in the early years—for me and a number of other cartoonists—was a guy named Will […]

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 that the impact could be interesting—both on those who loved the stories then and on those who look around now to find “hot” sensations of […]

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 Galleries in New York City. Known as the co-founder (with his friend William Ruder) of the public-relations firm Ruder Finn in 1948, David Finn has also been […]

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 enough to look fresh to the new generation of readers. Neither I nor the editors guessed that readers of the first versions were still buying […]