Tag: Maggie Thompson

MAGGIE’S WORLD BY MAGGIE THOMPSON Maggie’s World 058: Done in One As I recall, I came up with the expression “Done in One” around 1994. It might have been in an editorial or in a review; in either case, it was in an issue of Comics Buyer’s Guide. Why did I feel a need to create…

MAGGIE’S WORLD BY MAGGIE THOMPSON Maggie’s World 057: Take Another Look On November 18, 2017, Tony Isabella noted, “On this date in 1985, Calvin and Hobbes, a comic strip by Bill Watterson that was at its height one of the most popular in the world, was first published. It is my favorite comic strip of all…

MAGGIE’S WORLD BY MAGGIE THOMPSON Maggie’s World 056: Shopping for Comics Four decades ago, Phil Seuling and Jonni Levas announced incorporation of Sea Gate Distributors in The Buyer’s Guide. It was a formalization of the evolution of what would become the direct market. An Origin Story You young whippersnappers may not recall the comics-collecting challenges that…

MAGGIE’S WORLD BY MAGGIE THOMPSON Maggie’s World 055: It’s Pronounced ZEEN Maggie’s World for September mentioned that comics “Stuff” includes fanzines. It might be a good time to provide more information on those amateur self-publishing projects. Their form of social media isn’t often discussed these days. (They’re so much out of casual conversation that I’ve heard people…

MAGGIE’S WORLD BY MAGGIE THOMPSON Maggie’s World 054: Dealing with Stuff I Opened My 2017 Comic-Con Panel with This: A friend recently reported on a visit from that friend’s acquaintance. The person had entered the home, looked at the rooms filled with precious collectibles, and exclaimed, “Wow! It’s a five-dumpster house!” When people spend decades…

MAGGIE’S WORLD BY MAGGIE THOMPSON! Maggie’s World 053: Serendipity You Know the Story, Right? Horace Walpole said that the story “The Three Princes of Serendip” involved its characters’ “always making discoveries, by accidents and sagacity, of things which they were not in quest of.” He coined the term “serendipity” to summarize such occasions. And “serendipity”…