maggie thompson Archives

See You At San Diego
American Cinematheque will be selling the art via auction, with proceeds going back to the American Cinematheque itself See You At San Diego: An Oral History Of Comic-Con, Fandom And The Triumph Of Geek Culture by Mathew Klickstein and published by Fantagraphics, is an oral history of San Diego Comic-Con from its earliest days with forewords[...]
SDCC '15: Maggie Thompson On Downsizing The Condition Of Her Comics
Maggie Thompson is was editor of the Comics Buyers Guide and is one of the mainstays of the comic book industry And her comic book collection is legendary BU of late, she has been selling a lot of it Getting out of comics, Maggie? Not a bit of it. I bumped into Maggie in Artists Alley[...]
$5.8 Million In Sales at 100% Sell-Through Comic And Art Auction
The Don and Maggie Thompson Pedigree collection (originally mentioned here) ended up bringing in $835,384.00 as part of a $5.8 million 100% sell-through comic and comic art event at Heritage Auctions All 1,700 lots sold during the auction held Nov 21-23 in Beverly Hills. The top selling comic of the day was Tales of Suspense #39[...]
Don And Maggie Thompson's Million Dollar Collection To Go To Auction
Don and Maggie Thompson have an amazing and important history as part of the comic book industry In 1960 they put out a mimeographed one-sheet called Harbinger, it told about their upcoming project, one of the earliest fanzines called Comic Art The fanzine ran irregularly from 1961 to 1968 In 1967 they started another magazine[...]
Saturday Morning Runaround: Almost Nothing About Wonder Woman's Pants, Also: C2E2
Talk about history, think about the future: A few things from various C2E2 panels, the latest from Jim Shooter's blog, and I think it's pretty cool that Maggie Thompson has been posting stuff from her archives on her own blog. 'The Wolverine' not likely to get director to replace Darren Aronofsky in near future, says source[...]