Magazines you miss?

[Flaxbee]

I know a lot of people miss Omni from years and years ago. But have any magazines folded recently that you miss?

I have to admit to having liked Cottage Living and Domino - both sort of girly home design/decor magazines, but they were fun in a wish-fulfillment kind of way. I also really like textiles and design. Other magazines in this category - like Elle Decor and Architectural Digest - just represent such ridiculous budgets that they're not even fun for me to look at ...

What about you? :hi:

[Prisoner_Number_Six]

1. I was a charter subscriber to Omni. Nothing ever replaced it.

I don't recall subscribing to any other mag since it folded.

:cry:

[Flaxbee]

2. I know - Omni really was unique

we came across a year's worth in a used book store a while back. My husband snatched them up so fast my head spun :)

[Frank Cannon]

57. I have cried over the loss of OMNI for years

I can't believe no one's tried to resurrect it. There must be a lot of legal tie-ups involved with it, having been caught up in the meltdown of the Bob Guccione empire.

I understand that it was really his wife Kathy Keeton's magazine, and when she became ill with breast cancer, it just sort of went off the rails.

There's never been another magazine like OMNI, before or since.

[Richardo]

3. Spy

I'd read that cover to cover.

Also, there was a general interest science magazine in the 80's called - wait for it - Science '8x (where x = the year). I think it became Discover magazine but it wasn't the same.

[gratuitous]

4. Spy for sure

I also miss The Nose.

[mix]

6. loved Spy nt

[hayu_lol]

7. Yeah, there are 4 that I miss...

Saturday Evening Post, Colliers, Life, and the pulp science fiction pulp of my youth: Amazing Stories.

[Skittles]

8. SPY - the only magazine I've ever had a subscription for

yup

[jmowreader]

16. My favorite Spy memory...

My mailbox was close enough to my battalion commander's mailbox that we'd meet in the mailroom sometimes. One day he was there when I got my copy of Spy out. He made a joke about the title, and I offered to loan it to him because it was a really good magazine. Two weeks later I got it back with all the subscription cards removed and a note "you got any more of these?" clipped to the cover. It seems he read it and passed it around to every officer in the battalion.

[nuxvomica]

17. My favorite magazine ever

I fondly remember their fin de siecle meme, something like "Casinos of the Fourth Reich" and how they tracked indicators that the U.S. was becoming more like the Soviet Union as Russia became more like the U.S. And the ongoing nightclubbing competition between Carl Bernstein, Chris Dodd and some guy with a French-sounding name. I really need to dig up my old copies. I saved them like they were National Geographics.
I remember that science magazine, too. That was a cool magazine.

[Phentex]

34. I still have the one with a naked Arnold Schwarzenegger...

for the articles. :)

[Jade Fox]

35. Spy Magazine during the Reagan/Bush One years....

was essential to maintaining sanity. I think it was a precursor to much of today's political humor- Colbert and John Stewart especially.

[Captain Hilts]

48. Me too! The name came from the movie "Philadelphia Story." LOVED that mag. nt

[begin_within]

5. National Lampoon and Boys' Life

[GreenPartyVoter]

13. Boys' Life is still around. Not sure if it has changed since the old days, tho

[begin_within]

14. I looked at their site and it seems to have a lot of stuff about video games now

In my childhood it seemed to be more about boy scout type stuff (though I was never a boy scout, a lot of those things interested me).

[Phentex]

38. My boys get this and it's still pretty good...

I ran out of magazines to buy from the school fundraisers so I got this for them. This month features soccer, scouts, golf, an "amazing race" for kids, etc.

[bif]

26. National Lampoon was the best

In its hayday. "Diz Blows Bird at Newport." One of my favorite headlines ever.

[rurallib]

27. Their 'High School Yearbook' had to be one of the funniest

things I ever read. The Sunday paper parody was right up there.

[begin_within]

30. I still have the Sunday newspaper.

They really did a remarkable job at creating an entire newspaper down to the tiniest detail including ads and classifieds.

[Manifestor_of_Light]

44. National Lampoon and various parodies they had.

Anybody else remember the World Map? It looked like a normal map but all the place names were hilarious: Dire Straits, Desperate Straits, Inside Straits.

Australia had a town called Comfort Station. :rofl:

Peru had "Andes Granatelli". :rofl:

And Russia had the town of "Prefabrograd". :rofl: :rofl: :rofl:

The Cosmopolitan Parody: "How to Decorate Your Uterine Wall" :rofl:


And all the great cartoons: Charlie, Zippy, the mushroom hat with legs.

Classified ads: You too can get a job as "Messenger RNA". :rofl:

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I also miss Saturday Review. And Wigwam (pub'd in 1988, didn't last long).

I remember the SPY cover with Hillary in a dominatrix outfit. :rofl:

Started reading MAD when I was a little kid. Loved the fact that it took potshots at everybody.

I have a complete set of FLAIR Magazine from 1950-51 (Very advanced graphically with cutout covers, large format). Published by Fleur Cowles.

I also have an old issue of Cosmopolitan from 1934 when it was a serious literary magazine. Prohibition had just been repealed and the Schlitz ads were celebrating.


Etude magazine? For musicians and specifically pianists, published by Theodore Presser? I have some old issues from the 1920s.

I subscribe to The New Yorker, Parabola, and Vogue (I'm Boopsie Boopstein! I'm well informed, I read VOGUE!) :rofl:

[Auggie]

9. U&LC

Featured a lot of work by the amazing Herb Lubalin. You have to be in graphic design to understand.



I miss PushPin Graphics too. Brilliant work

[AllenVanAllen]

10. Famous Monsters of Filmland

I loved it when I was a kid.

[begin_within]

15. I'm sure you already know,

but the venerable Forrest J. Ackerman died at the age of 92 on Dec. 4, 2008. http://www.time.com/time/arts/article/0,8599,1864854,00.html

[AllenVanAllen]

54. I did know of his passing.

I'm glad he left a positive mark on the world of fandom though. :)

[flying rabbit]

43. I loved FM! n/t

[AllenVanAllen]

55. I would be thrilled to see new issues at the store!

They helped shape me into the fan I am today. :)

[gmoney]

11. "Trouser Press" and the old "Creem" and "Rolling Stone"

[mix]

12. Creem was great, so was Circus

[Jade Fox]

36. Creem during th 1980s....

Never missed an issue!

[Captain Hilts]

49. Tony Kornheiser wrote for Creem. nt

[Radical Activist]

18. George

[musette_sf]

51. I liked George too

Too bad he (JFK Jr) couldn't make a go of it,

[LeftyMom]

19. Herbivore and Clamor.

[Tabasco_Dave]

20. 70's-90's Playboy

The women had "the girl next door look" they where hot secretaries, nurses, college students, ect. They had curves and a natural look, now they have fake looking, fake boob, anorexic models.

[Roon]

21. Mad

My Grandparents bought a copy each month for us kids and take it to the cabin.We would read them over and over again. When us kids grew up it was readers digest.

[sarge43]

23. Mad is still with us. Not quite as edgy, but still good. n/t

[Roon]

24. Oh, I knew that...

Just saying I miss the mag from when I was a kid.

[sarge43]

28. Oh. Understand.

Melvin of the Apes, Superduperman!, Starchie and Flesh Garden *sigh*

[JCMach1]

22. Epic magazine

one of my favorites as a teen.



The magazine was initiated under editor Rick Marschall in 1979 under the title Odyssey, and originally set to launch as an issue of Marvel Super Special, Marvel's early graphic novel line.<1> After Marschall learned of at least seven other magazines titled Odyssey, the project was renamed Epic Illustrated and launched as a standalone series.<2> Marschall was replaced by editor Archie Goodwin in the autumn of 1979, several months before the first issue was published.<3>

The anthology featured heroic fiction and genre stories, primarily fantasy and science fiction, but in a broad range of styles. Established mainstream-comics talents as X-Men's Byrne-Austin pencil-ink team, John Buscema, and Jim Starlin, were featured, as well as independent-press creators as Wendy Pini and The Studio's Jeffrey Jones, M.W. Kaluta, Barry Windsor-Smith, and Berni Wrightson. Goodwin commissioned stories by many new artists, including Steve Bissette, Pepe Moreno, Jon J. Muth, Rick Veitch and Kent Williams. The magazine format, which was a first for Marvel, allowed for a broader range of color than the traditional three-color printing process, and many of the stories, and all the covers, were painted. Fantasy artists who did not normally work in the comics field, such as Richard Corben, Frank Frazetta, The Brothers Hildebrandt, and Boris Vallejo contributed covers.<4>

Epic Illustrated also included an occasional Marvel Comics protagonist, such as the first issue's Silver Surfer story by Stan Lee and John Buscema. Because the magazine was not subject to traditional comic books' Comics Code Authority, however, writers and artists were free to create material stories that might be risqué or non-canon.

Each issue usually featured a main story, a number of regular serials, and anthological shorts... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Epic_Illustrated

[HopeHoops]

25. Ahoy!

It was a Commodore 64 magazine.

[greendog]

29. CoEvolution Quarterly

[tango-tee]

31. I returned to Europe in the mid 1990s,

and miss Metropolitan Home. Is that magazine even still on the market?

It's odd: When I lived in America I spent quite a few dollars on European magazines... Brigitte, Tatler, etc. And just as soon as I was back over here, there went the money for Met Home and House Beautiful for a couple of years.

One issue costs about $15.00. As the economy and my circumstances changed (not for the better) and despite loving HB and Met Home as my "dream books", that was simply too much. I haven't bought any of them in years.

For whatever perverse and shallow reasons, I've always loved those magazines; whatever I saw on those glossy pages has been, is right now and always will be outside of my budget. Sigh.

[Brickbat]

32. Brill's Content. That, and the magazine I worked for that folded right after 9/11.

Helluva job.

[Honeycombe8]

33. Mother Earth News.

Actually, I'm not for sure it's not still published. But I never see it anywhere. Decades ago it was on all the stands.

[Z_I_Peevey]

39. It's still around.

Full of subscription cards, too, if you ever run across one in a public library.

[Honeycombe8]

56. This is good to know. nt

[underpants]

40. We subscribe

[Amerigo Vespucci]

37. Life hasn't been the same since I let my subscription to "Miniature Donket Talk" lapse.

[kimmerspixelated]

41. LOOK.

[Paladin]

42. "Esquire," Back In The 60's and 70's.........

....when it was the best magazine in the country. Back in my college days, nobody I knew ever missed an issue.

Close runner-up: "National Lampoon," again, back before it started to go downhill......

[musette_sf]

52. Agreed

The George Lois covers, the forthright writing, and of course, Why Is This Man Laughing?

[Iggo]

45. FOOM!

Actually, I miss the interest I had in comic books that led me to like a mag like FOOM.

Excelsior!

[Maccagirl]

46. Rolling Stone-okay-I know it's still in circulation

but as far as being relevant...it's gone the way of MTV.

[MrScorpio]

47. I loved OMNI

I was also a fan of Mediascene Preview

[Hawkeye-X]

50. Cracked.

Why it folded and stayed online, I never knew.

MAD has cut back to 6 issues a year. That sucks.

[musette_sf]

53. Viva

Seriously.