Maggie Thompson

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Maggie Thompson
Harvey Award

Maggie Thompson (born Margaret Curtis; November 29, 1942),[2] is an American longtime editor of the now-defunct comic book industry news magazine Comics Buyer's Guide, science fiction fan, and collector of comics.

Early life

Margaret (

Robert Heinlein and L. Ron Hubbard. According to family tradition, Betsy claimed descent from Anne Bradstreet and at least two presidents of Yale University.[citation needed
]

Thompson and her late husband and fellow science fiction fan Don Thompson (October 30, 1935 – May 23, 1994) were among the instigators of what developed in the 1960s into comic book fandom.[3]

Their Harbinger (a mimeographed one-sheet published in the autumn of 1960) announced the upcoming publication of Comic Art, one of the early amateur magazines devoted to all aspects of sequential art (a term not then in use). The initial issue of Comic Art was released the following spring.[4] Seven issues were published at irregular intervals between 1961 and 1968. As publication of Comic Art wound down, they shifted their attention to a new venture as the Thompsons started a fanzine titled Newfangles in March 1967. Unlike other comics news fanzines of the time it was devoted to the doings of comics fandom instead of news about comic books and comic book professionals.[5]

Career

Maggie and Don Thompson at the 1992 San Diego Comic Con

Thompson began working for

Innovation Comics. [6]

Krause later sold the movie newspaper, but Thompson continued to edit Comics Buyer's Guide, long after her husband's death in 1994

San Diego Comic-Con International's Toucan blog called "Maggie's World".[citation needed
]

Her son Stephen Thompson would go on to become an editor for The Onion and creator of The A.V. Club before moving on to NPR. Stephen co-hosts "Pop Culture Happy Hour", a pop culture-themed podcast on which Maggie has made multiple appearances.[citation needed]

Accolades

Under Maggie's editorial direction, Comics Buyer's Guide twice won the comics industry's

Eisner Award for periodicals, among other awards.[3] She was a recipient of the Bob Clampett Humanitarian Award and was also the first recipient of the Friends of Lulu's Women of Distinction Award.[7]

Maggie and Don Thompson received many joint awards,[1] including:

Thompson Award

The

Don Thompson Award
from 1992 to 1998. Originally known as the "Compuserve Comics and Animation Forum Award", the name was changed to the "Compuserve Comics and Animation Forum's Don Thompson Award" (or, simply, the "Thompson") after Don Thompson's death in 1994.

References

  1. ^ a b c Thompson entry, Who's Who of American Comic Books, 1928–1999.
  2. ^ Comics Buyer's Guide #1636 (December 2007); Page 135
  3. ^ a b Butler, Don (July 1994). "CGB Co-Editor Don Thompson Dead at 58". Hero Illustrated. p. 16.
  4. ^ a b Biographical information at CBGXtra.com
  5. ^ "Newfangles #1 online reprint introduction". The Official Website of Maggie Thompson.[dead link]
  6. ^ "Dark Shadows: Book Two". Grand Comics Database. Archived from the original on April 15, 2016. Retrieved May 20, 2023.
  7. ^ "Lulu Award". Comic Book Awards Almanac. Archived from the original on January 26, 2013.
  8. ^ Don Thompson entry, Who's Who of American Comic Books, 1928–1999. Accessed Feb. 4, 2016.
  9. Comics Beat. Archived
    from the original on December 9, 2019. Retrieved August 1, 2022.
  10. ^ Schedeen, Jesse (July 25, 2020). "2020 Eisner Award Winners Revealed: Comic-Con 2020". IGN. Archived from the original on July 26, 2020. Retrieved August 1, 2022.

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