MAGGIE’S WORLD BY MAGGIE THOMPSON Maggie’s World 035: Changes As 2015 began to wrap up, I was thinking about the assortment of wonderful comics released during the year—and that led me to memories of the successes of comics in other media. That, in turn, reminded me that many folks’ earliest exposure to comic book characters […]

MAGGIE’S WORLD BY MAGGIE THOMPSON Maggie’s World 034: It’s EPIC! I recently became caught up in a conversation with someone who sneered that, while he was a devoted fan of motion pictures, he never watched television. To which I responded that it was in television, not movies, that we most commonly find today’s epics. All […]

MAGGIE’S WORLD BY MAGGIE THOMPSON Maggie’s World 033: BOO! Did you see the recent Blood Moon? Did you just buy the DVD of the first season of iZombie, as the second season prepared to launch? Did you recently watch Fear the Walking Dead? Did you just hear a creaking door? Don’t reach for the oilcan. It’s October: […]

MAGGIE’S WORLD BY MAGGIE THOMPSON Maggie’s World 032: 55 Years and Counting September. It’s a pivotal point—as exemplified by the start of the school year near Labor Day. Also: Labor Day Weekend, as a matter of tradition, is often when World Science Fiction Conventions are held. My first was in 1955, when Mom, Dad, and […]

MAGGIE’S WORLD BY MAGGIE THOMPSON Maggie’s World 031: Comic-Con Takeaways This year, I found myself fascinated by the way old and new approaches kept merging for me at Comic-Con International: San Diego. Old Stuff In an oddball throwback to conventions of days gone by, daughter Valerie and I found ourselves experiencing the 2015 Comic-Con in […]

MAGGIE’S WORLD BY MAGGIE THOMPSON Maggie’s World 030: Comic-Con Memories When Archie Andrews and Chuck Clayton had a great time at San Diego’s convention on the cover of Archie Giant Series Magazine #601, it was 1989. They’d earned the trip with Chuck’s poster promoting a blood drive. In “Comic Con Conniptions” by George Gladir, Stan Goldberg, and […]