Canon info about Maxine (list will be continuously updated)
Maxine's only confirmed age is "21 plus a few extra years you don't need to know about" and confirmed birthday is "Last person who guessed won a fat lip". Going by her debuting in 1986 it's fairly easy to suggest that she's somewhere in-between being from the Greatest Generation or Silent Generation (so somewhere in the 1920s). It's sometimes joked that she might be even older than that but that's probably just Hallmark being silly.
No canonical last name (personally I use "Wagner" for her but canonically she only has a first name).
Officially stands at 5'3" ("and shrinking")/104 lbs ("127 with loaded purse").
Maxine was a redhead before going gray.
She was a genuinely adorable and sweet kid who developed her sour attitude because her childhood "friends" were horrible to her, and some of her family members weren't much better.
She also had those sunglasses since childhood. They're so "nobody can see her cry".
She was married. All that's known about ex-husband was that he was an asshole with a god complex (Maxine mentions they divorced over "difference of religion" because "he thought he was god and she didn't") and that he's still alive. It's unknown when they got married (presumably the early fifties) but they were together for twenty years (remember that Maxine wouldn't have been able to have her own bank account until 1974- that, and divorce was considered taboo before then). It's strongly suggested that he's the reason why Maxine distrusts men.
Possibly lives in the upper Midwest (judging by some of the minor characters' accents in the Christmas special).
Has a job as a secretary. Some material mentions she's retired, but in most material she's working a secretary job that she hates.
Politically she hates both the right and the left. She has stated they should move more "to the center"...so she can run them over with her car. Of course, Maxine probably hates centrists as well. She just hates every side equally. Her political views just seem to be "whatever benefits her the most".
Is a Trekkie (she does the Vulcan salute in one Crabby Road comic and Hallmark released an ornament of her in a Star Trek uniform in 2016).
Refers to herself as "mama" sometimes when talking to Floyd (he really is her son!).
Smoked until 1997.
Can skateboard.
Besides Floyd, she also has a cat. Said cat was originally named "Nip"- as in "catnip" (as shown on her bowl) but usually was never referred to by name outside of product descriptions. The cat went in-between being referred to as female or male, but for the most part referred to as female. And unlike Floyd, was usually only there when a joke required a cat. In 2016, the cat was replaced (or retooled) with Mabel, a fatter gray tabby with a similar personality to her "mama", and is featured more prominently on merchandise now (though still not to Floyd's extent). Mabel is sometimes still referred to with the previous name in product descriptions; it's possible some Hallmark staff didn't get the memo.
Also besides the pets, her only real "friend" is Billy, the young son of her neighbors (as shown in the Christmas special). We don't know how they became close but he looks up to her and she's protective over him and it's legitimately adorable.
Lives in either a mobile home or a two-story house; the former mainly in earlier material but the latter moreso from the late 90s on.
Knows she's a cartoon character and refers to her creator, John Wagner, as "Arty-boy".
(Seemingly) Christian; only goes to church on Christmas and Easter. If even then.
Had a gray shorthaired cat named Scarlett as a child.
Is the "peacemaker" of her family. Which doesn't paint a good picture of what the rest of her relatives are like.
Voice actresses include Tress MacNeille from the 1999 Christmas special and Cathy Barnett, who voices her for ornaments, e-cards, and sound cards beginning in the 2000s. Her voices for the 1989 and 1992 Hallmark commercials are currently unknown.