It’s the end of an era: Family Circle ending after 87 years. I also didn’t even know Self ended in 2017. I saw the last issue of Teen a few years ago. And that McCall’s ended in 2014 also. There was a recent announcement Marie Claire UK just sold its last printed issue and will be going online only.
Noticed some grocery stores have eliminated their magazine rack. My Half Price Books no longer carry magazines. I just realized I hadn’t seen a cover of Rolling Stone in last couple of years except just at Barnes and Noble.
Oh goddamnit. I thought you meant Family Circus was ending.
Seems like that comic has been around for 187 years. :smack:
Not me.
Dammit, I fell for it too!
My question is why is any physical copy of a magazine sold anymore? Paying seven bucks for a lots-of-white-space-but-little-text item that can easily be read online doesn’t make much sense. Interestingly, my local grocery store has shoved its magazines into an inaccessable corner. The prize slots in the checkout lines are all special issues/coloring books/crosswords.
Somehow, I have a subscription to “PopSci.”
Maybe it was a present, I dunno.
But, setting aside the asinine name (what was wrong with “Popular Science, hmmm?), the magazine is almost unreadable. The articles are all don’t in “infographic” style, with tiny text that flows randomly around photos and illustrations. Maybe this is what passes for modern layout, but for me, it just makes the magazine worthless.
Seems to me that trying to capture the youth market is just alienating the subscribers that currently have.
Same way I read it.
OP: I don’t understand why you call it the end of an era. While the magazine sold a lot of copies it just didn’t have any impact: you never saw other media citing it for breaking an important story or having an important interview.
Lol!
Family Circus is still around??? The magazine was part of the “seven sisters” publications with Good Housekeeping, Redbook, and the 4 other women’s magazines.
I’m chuckling cuz I was at the dentist office the other day seeing an issue of People Weekly and all the celeb paparazzi pics I saw in it I already saw online.
I was actually getting subscriptions thru mileage points since it was use the points or lose it and I hadn’t flown in a awhile.
Ida Know.
Family Circus I started in 1960, and it was originally called Family Circle. I don’t knoe if they got a C&D letter. It was always printed inside a circle so the ame made some sense.
The others were Better Homes and Gardens, Ladies’ Home Journal, McCall’s, and Woman’s Day. Only “BH&G”, “GH”, and “WD” are still printed. Redbook survives in digital form. McCall’s folded after an ill-fated attempt to rebrand itself as Rosie in collaboration with Rosie O’Donnell. More here.
Oooooh. I’d heard of Family Circle. Never knew it changed to Family Circus.
Shit… saw the feed, read/thought-I-read the same thing. Finally, Billy is dead! But no such luck.
I subscribed to Popular Science for over 20 years(from 1985 to roughly 2010) and stopped because in the last few years they kept changing the format around.
All of my favorite magazines are now out of print:
Wizard: The Guide to Comics
Toyfare
PC World
Computer Shopper
Cracked
MAD Magazine
Backwoods Home
I guess print is just a dying medium.
Back in the day, I loved Computer Shopper. Each 20 pound lump was my bible for a month.
My mother dragged me along to the “beauty parlor” weekly to get her “hair done” back in the 60s when I was a kid. If I ran out of reading material I would fall back on the women’s magazines. I was fond of the page long weight loss ads for AIDS, a candy you would eat before eating, to fill you up so you wouldn’t overeat.
Those ads disappeared by the early 80s. I wonder why?
I guess this means my mom might finally catch up on her magazine backlog. Though I don’t think she’s actually subscribed for a while (because of, well, her backlog).
well its auidence had been diminishing for decades which was mainly housewives and grandma types that needed the latest recipe for dinner or decorating tips for the holidays along with knowing the latest diet/medical trend and throw-in a celb interview a few feel good stories and a chapter or two 9f next months must have romance along with shopping guides and there you have every issue of fc ever