Witch magazine

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Magical Girl (魔法少女) is a character trope, as well as a genre of fiction which centers both around the concepts of girls coming of age and possessing power through their femininity rather than by rejecting it. It is a common theme for the protagonists to need to balance their school lives, personal lives, and their responsibilities of saving the world as a Magical Girl. The aesthetic is often hyper feminine and very in touch with expressing emotion freely, both positive and negative. Magical…

For more than six years I have been on the pencils of one of the Disney comics successes of the new millennium. I have drawn about fifteen episodes between regular and special series as well as many covers and illustrations. W.I.T.C.H. magazine is one of the best memories of my career as a cartoonist, having been part of the team since the first episodes.

[From Amazing Science Fiction magazine for August 1973.] The "Academy for Mystic Arts" which sponsored this ad seems no longer to exist,

Modern-day British pagans celebrate their ancient rites the same way that people have been worshipping Mother Nature for thousands of years.

The Witches by Anne Paige, Illustrated by Fern Bisel 1952. From Children's Playmate Magazine, Oct 1953