MAGGIE’S WORLD BY MAGGIE THOMPSON Maggie’s World 070: 4 A friend asked me recently what comics I’d recommend for her 4-year-old nephew. Thinking about the sort of comics I’d loved at that age—and comics that had entertained our kids 25 and 30 years later—my first suggestion was Jeff Smith’s Bone saga, begun in 1991. Noting that we’d […]

MAGGIE’S WORLD BY MAGGIE THOMPSON Maggie’s World 069: Age At Comic-Con in 1992, Todd McFarlane received an Inkpot Award. He was 31 at the time (and had been experimenting with how to draw comics since he was a kid, having begun to develop Spawn when he was 16 years old). My husband, Don, noted in the presentation that […]

MAGGIE’S WORLD BY MAGGIE THOMPSON Maggie’s World 068: Covers In Maggie’s World #29 in 2015, I griped about “an increasing emphasis on covers over contents” among collectors. It’s time to revisit that 2015 post. I wrote, “An entire essay could be (and has been, I’m sure) devoted to the challenges of creating a comic book cover. The issue […]

MAGGIE’S WORLD BY MAGGIE THOMPSON Maggie’s World 067: Words Polonius: “What do you read, my lord?” Hamlet: “Words, words, words.” That was in Act 2, Scene 2; Shakespeare wrote those words around 1600, more than five centuries after the Bayeux “Tapestry” had told its story in pictures—and it came to mind while looking at earlier Maggie’s […]

MAGGIE’S WORLD BY MAGGIE THOMPSON Maggie’s World 066: Classics Did you ever read Stephen Becker’s Comic Art in America? It was a sample-packed volume that introduced readers in 1959 to the comics that had entertained the preceding couple of generations. (Rumor has it that much of the content was actually provided by pros of his day; […]

MAGGIE’S WORLD BY MAGGIE THOMPSON Maggie’s World 065: Obsession Compulsion Could it be argued that obsessive collecting has its basis in research? I’ve read issues #103, #104, #107, and #110. But things happened in the issues I don’t have. Yet. So I have to search for #105, #106, #108, and #109. Once I’ve found them, […]