Which magazines still run cartoons?

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Back when Playboy abruptly changed its format, they tossed out cartoons. They changed their minds shortly after, and soon cartoons, along with nude photos, were back. But now Playboy itself is gone.

I recall it being sad because Playboy had been one of the few remaining markets for cartoons. Now that they’re gone, what’s left?

According to this site ( Cartoon Markets )

New Yorker (of course)

Harvard Business Review

Reader’s Digest (not surprising)

Barron’s

Wall Street Journal

So stodgy old financial magazines like to brighten their pages with business-based caroons…

I’ll add:

American Scientist (Mostly S. Harris)

Does Fantasy and Science Fiction still run cartoons?

I can’t count Mad – that magazine is virtually all cartoons – they’re not “filler”

What else?

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Until relatively recently one of my best buds had a recurring short-comic gig in the print version of Psychology Today. Not sure if they’ve replaced her with another cartoonist since she’s left.

Also not sure if this counts but she and some other friends often get comic jobs in the NYTimes Magazine and NYTimes columns.

All the others I was going to say are no longer operating. i.e. RIP the Believer, you didn’t deserve your fate.

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It does indeed.

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Funny Times is technically a monthly newspaper since its on newsprint, but I think of it more as a magazine. It runs humor articles surrounded by a border of cartoons. More than 100 per 24 page issue.

The American Bystander is an online humor magazine that also has a print edition. It’s much slicker, nicer than the Lampoon ever was. It runs plenty of cartoons in between the articles.

The New Gag Recap has an online magazine you need to subscribe to, but it crowdsources all the markets for gag writers and cartoonists. The home page talks about 2021 cartoons so the info is much more current that most of the lists on other sites. I don’t subscribe, though, so I can’t say anything else.

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When I got back into model trains in 2020, after several decades away from the hobby, I got a subscription to Model Railroader magazine. They have a single-panel railroading-related cartoon that runs near the back of each issue. I don’t find it to be particularly funny most months, but it’s another data point for this thread.

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Does Parade magazine still exist? They have a lot of cartoons but I believe they’re recurring, such as Howard Huge.

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But they’ve gone to bimonthly and there’s three or four cartoons per issue – thin market. I’ve wondered what the artists to to actually eat.

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The Week has 1 or 2 pages of 'toons each week.

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Those are reprinted editorial cartoons, a different category. Though the number of print newspapers with editorial cartoonists has been dropping precipitously, they can still be found online in much larger numbers.

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Re MAD

They no longer print new material. They still publish but only various collections of previously published stuff.

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I get Parade magazine with my Sunday paper, and it’s been years since I’ve seen a cartoon in it. I do remember the Howard Huge cartoons from the past, however.

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Not quite true. They mostly just reprint older stuff, but they toss in one or two new items (and a new cover, and fold-in)

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I sit corrected.

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A new fold-in? Al Jaffee retired in 2020; is someone else making them now?

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Yes. The latest issue has one by Johnny Sampson