MAGGIE’S WORLD BY MAGGIE THOMPSON Maggie’s World 064: It Begins A Social Media Challenge Facebook friend Steven Carroll passed on to me one of those tasks, sent to him by someone else. He invited me to post “10 comic books that made an impact on you the first time you saw them and still enjoy […]

MAGGIE’S WORLD BY MAGGIE THOMPSON Maggie’s World 063: Plans Here’s a Thing About Life … The Internet says that comic-strip writer Allen Saunders (1899-1986) wrote in 1957, “Life is what happens while you are busy making other plans.” As far as I know, the Internet has so far failed to identify whether he wrote it […]

MAGGIE’S WORLD BY MAGGIE THOMPSON Maggie’s World 059: Licensed to Thrill “Your movies are huge! Loads of kids are going to come into our restaurant, if we give away your toys.” “Yeah, but your restaurants are everywhere. I mean, loads of kids are going to come to our movie, if they’ve been given toys for […]

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 […]