Jackie (magazine) especially if the story involved a "reader's true life experience". Both the comics and the short stories invariably dealt with either romance or family issues. The centre pages of the magazine usually contained a pull-out poster of a popular band or film star. The magazine featured a section called "Silly Star File", a humorous interview with figures from the world of pop music. "Jackie" became very popular with young teenage girls, not least because of the "Cathy and Claire" problem page, which received 400 reader letters a week and dealt with controversial issues that were nonetheless relevant to the readership.
Cathy Cassidy Cathy Cassidy Cathy Cassidy (born 13 June 1962) is a British author of young adult fiction. She was born in Coventry, in Warwickshire. For a number of years she lived near New Galloway in Scotland where she started writing her novels but now lives on The Wirral. She has written 30 books and a few e-books as well. She has also been the agony aunt for "Shout", a magazine for teenage girls, and she presently has a series of four books about Daizy Star for younger readers and a series of books for older readers called the Chocolate Box Girls.