What Magazine do you miss the most?

[DanOregon]

Grew up with magazines, Time, SI, Life, People, MAD - really enjoyed that great "niche" they filled between the daily paper and well, books in terms of memorializing our life and times through the years. Curious which "loss" seems to be the biggest - for you personally or just in general.

And yeah, kids sneaking a peak at their dad's Playboy seems so quaint now.

 

[User 150927]

Newsweek.

It died long before they actually put it to bed, And it was sad to watch this amazing magazines so full of easily accessible stories about things you didn't read every day just wither.

 

[playthrough]

I miss the relevance of covers. And now I'll have "The Cover of Rolling Stone" by Dr. Hook & The Medicine Show in my head the rest of the day. "Wanna buy five copies for my mother!"

 

[garrow]

Spy

 

[goalmouth]

The original Details.

 

[Woody Long]

Sports Illustrated.

 

[Octave]

MAD. As a kid I learned more about movies, music and books from MAD than just about anywhere else.

 

[Readallover]

Saturday Evening Post.

 

[BYH 2: Electric Boogaloo]

The original Details.

Great call. Being a virginal teen and reading Anna Radakovich was better than any porno.

Details also had one of the best magazine articles I've ever read...the 1993 profile of Ray Sharkey as he was dying of AIDS he insisted he didn't have.

 

[BYH 2: Electric Boogaloo]

Great call. Being a virginal teen and reading Anna Radakovich was better than any porno.

Details also had one of the best magazine articles I've ever read...the 1993 profile of Ray Sharkey as he was dying of AIDS he insisted he didn't have.

***ANKA Radakovich, should have cut-and-paste the ENTIRE name, dummy

 

[Slacker]

National Lampoon
Spy
Brill's Content

 

[goalmouth]

The Playboy Interview.

 

[DanOregon]

I enjoyed Brills Content as well. American Heritage was great. Golf Digest was good for about the first two years I took up the game, but then you'd see these training articles that were so detailed and unrealistic for most golfers - (Shoe sensors to ensure a proper alignment? Even practicing in "the rough" - how many ranges of "rough areas" you can cut up? Or bunkers you can practice in?). I used to love reading TV Guide's Fall Preview Issue, holding on to them and than looking back at one and realizing some big movie star was in THAT show? Or - did highly paid executives think this show would actually be WATCHED?

Is there any magazine still being published that delves into political humor as well as MAD?

 

[OscarMadison]

Western Horseman and the early years of Spin. Spin used to be this insanely creative magazine that tapped into a weird, speculative edge of American music. Axel Rose was once featured in a mock-up of a Breck ad. One cartoonist (Chwast?) did a multi-panel single page on what would have happened if someone put Janis Joplin on antidepressants. It was like the rightful successor to NatLamp back when it featured cartoonists and illustrators like Sherri Flenniken, B. K. Taylor, and Gahan Wilson.

 

[mpcincal]

Sports Illustrated as it was -- weekly, relevant, and chock full of great writing and photography. I just remember always being in a good mood on Thursday not only because the weekend was getting nearer, but because I knew my new issue of SI was coming that day (usually). Oh yeah, and every February looking forward to the swimsuit issue before it started morphing into a clone of Vogue or Elle.

MAD comes in a close second. I actually stopped getting it for the most part once I got into my mid-to-late teens, but I find myself wishing I continued to buy it though the late '80s and '90s.

 

[Shropshire Slasher]

I was too young to appreciate the heyday of MAD and its political commentary. But I see excerpts from the Watergate era today and man, they hit the target.

 

[Azrael]

Great question.

Some already mentioned, of course - National Lampoon, Mad, Playboy, etc. From childhood, Saturday Evening Post, Readers' Digest. Of that era the one I miss most, and think of most fondly, is probably Life.

I sorely miss Story quarterly.

And I miss very keenly the greatest magazine ever made, DoubleTake. Founded and edited by Robert Coles, it remains one of the most thrilling, beautiful quarterly books ever made. When you see copies for sale used, buy 'em up.

 

[Azrael]

Surprised no one has mentioned Inside Sports yet.

Or Sport.

 

[maumann]

The Sporting News. Was the only way to get baseball news on every team (and full box scores) before USA Today.

Sport was great because of the full-page photos. I cut them out and taped them to my bedroom walls.

And Mad magazine definitely honed my puns.

 

[playthrough]

I enjoyed Brills Content as well. American Heritage was great. Golf Digest was good for about the first two years I took up the game, but then you'd see these training articles that were so detailed and unrealistic for most golfers - (Shoe sensors to ensure a proper alignment? Even practicing in "the rough" - how many ranges of "rough areas" you can cut up? Or bunkers you can practice in?). I used to love reading TV Guide's Fall Preview Issue, holding on to them and than looking back at one and realizing some big movie star was in THAT show? Or - did highly paid executives think this show would actually be WATCHED?

Is there any magazine still being published that delves into political humor as well as MAD?

A third vote for Brill's Content. Seemed to come and go in a flash.

The golf mags today are very hit-and-miss, no pun intended. Golfweek was awesome back in the day, they'd publish mini-tour and top amateur results from across the country and I'd keep an eye on guys that came through my small paper's town.