Tag: Maggie Thompson
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Maggie’s World 064: It Begins
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…
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Maggie’s World 063: Plans
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…
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Maggie’s World 062: Fans Become Pros with Superman
MAGGIE’S WORLD BY MAGGIE THOMPSON Maggie’s World 062: Fans Become Pros with Superman By 1938, Jerry Siegel and Joe Shuster (both born in 1914) had already established themselves in what would later be called First Fandom. (That was the term for science fiction fans who could demonstrate fan activity by 1936.) A letter from the…
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Maggie’s World 061: Funny Animals
MAGGIE’S WORLD BY MAGGIE THOMPSON Maggie’s World 061: Funny Animals Aesop’s stories teach lessons for centuries. Folk tales of Coyote and Fox and Rabbit are brought to an American audience by Joel Chandler Harris. In Britain, Alice grows to accept that Wonderland is a world of talking animals, an elephant’s child gets a longer nose,…
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Maggie’s World 060: Remember Mopee?
MAGGIE’S WORLD BY MAGGIE THOMPSON Maggie’s World 060: Remember Mopee? Brent Frankenhoff posted on Facebook March 16, 2018, “Had a dream that Comics Buyer’s Guide was back and we had revived the Mopee Awards (our annual Golden Turkey Awards for those comics stories of the ’60s that just plain made no sense), but for modern-day stories. Maggie…
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Maggie’s World 059: Licensed to Thrill
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…