Sad day, a vestige of my youth is shutting down.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/entertainment/news/mad-magazine-to-effectively-shutter-after-67-years/ar-AADP8Bo?li=BBnbfcL
Well that sucks. I guess the Millennials don’t like good magazines.
Magazines are dead across the board.
It’s not just millennials, how many magazines or newspapers do you have within arms reach compared to 10, 15 20 years ago? And it’s not just newspapers & magazines no longer being brought aboard, I haven’t heard of anyone bringing DVD’s with them to work in a coon’s age. It’s a new world all over again.
Haven’t read that Mag in many decades but as a child of the 60’s, sad to see it go.
I loved spy v spy
And some of the wisdom in it was priceless. … even to a seven year old I understood the satire and irony.
But in this digital world it has been replaced with the echo chamber of Twatter and Faceache.
That’s the truth. My Dad passed away not long ago and as a part of putting his affairs in order I cancelled 17 newspaper & magazine subscriptions. I think I took 200 lbs of old newspapers to the recycling dumpster.
I stopped getting hard copies of the paper long ago and get just a few magazines. Some of those are trade publications that may or may not get read.
Thats really sad. I loved Mad magazine when I was young. It definitely went downhill, but still worth reading.
I guess I’m an outlier here. I still read. All the time. I still have about 20 different magazine subscriptions and bring them to the ship to pass around when I finish reading them. Sadly, some of them are switching to pure digital. I won’t read them that way.
20 magazines weighs too much for me. I usually bring the Work Boat, Professional Mariner & a Money magazine. Unfortunately this time coming to work will be the last time I bring Money magazine since the June edition was the last.
Yeah Sand_Pebble, I know what you mean. I don’t bring 20 with me! I do read them all eventually tho. I’m sad about Money too, I don’t read online much. It’s too uncomfortable. I have subscriptions to those 3, and also Sea History and Marlinspike for maritime (plus the SIU newsletter). I also really like National Geographic, Smithsonian and the Science Fiction & Fantasy magazine.
I remember packing, deciding what paperbacks, text books and cassette tapes I wanted, no space for them all, all of that and more I can now carry on my phone, lap top and Kindle, and I could compact that as well.
I entertain myself as an auto racing photographer. I am finding fewer and fewer magazines to publish my photos. . . and more and more competition with entry level camera kits and, dare I say, cell phones. . . Victory Lane can be its own special kind of hell.