RIP Mad magazine
News came earlier this week that the long-running humor and satire magazine, Mad, is effectively ceasing publication of new material. After August’s issue #9, Mad will stop being sold on newsstands,
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Apple announces a new streaming service, a digital magazine service, and... a credit card?
On Monday, Apple announced a range of new digital services. They decided to make this their main presentation emphasis, to the point that a range of mostly incremental hardware upgrades to the iPad
RIP SkyMall, Cat Fancy, and Dog Fancy
I bring news of a trio of long-running magazines/catalogs finally going under. “SkyMall,” the ubiquitous back-of-the-airplane-seat filler, is filing for bankruptcy. The catalog, offering all sorts of odd knickknacks that
RIP Macworld magazine
Along with the death of the iPod Classic this week comes news of another longtime Apple-related stalwart’s end. Macworld magazine, the longtime Apple/Mac monthly newsmagazine, is calling it quits as
RIP Newsweek (and the concepts behind weekly newsmagazines?)
As announced last week, weekly newsmagazine (and Time competitor) Newsweek says it’ll be ending its 80-year run as a print publication, and shifting solely to online content after the end of
Miscellaneous comics news: "Wizard" magazine closes shop, more on the death of the Comics Code
Several miscellaneous comics items: Today’s big news is that “Wizard” magazine, a monthly magazine covering the (mostly superhero) comics industry, is shutting down. Back in the 90s (when my
New Archie magazine, "Veronica and Betty," to debut in 2011
Archie’s “turning it up to 11” in 2011! (Yeah, I know, but I need something to replace the soon-to-end 2010 “year we make contact” puns/bide time