Mr. Magazine

I gauge my believe in the status of print on the fall and rise of new magazines. Please note that I did not say future of print but rather status.  As long as we have humans we are going to have print.  End of discussion.  And for those who know me and know my writings and analysis know that. “It is only a magazine if it is ink on paper: i.e. print.”

So it should come to no surprise when I tell you I was delighted when the post office delivered to my mailbox the first issue of Hoffman’s Media The Supper Club with Lydia Menzies. The same happened on Christmas Eve when the first issue of the magazine dedicated to the late chef Anthony Bourdain Roads & Kingdom landed in my mailbox.

Those two magazines were but two from a total of 69 new magazines that were launched in 2025, a number that showed an upward move compared with 2024 as the chart below shows.

Of note among the launches are Art Bar, Bonnie Christine’s Pattern magazine, Southlands, Outlander, Permanent Record, The Street, and Heartbeat.

An Editor’s Note: Starting next week, I will start publishing a book-in-a-blog about the status of magazines in general a century ago and one specific magazine that changed the status of Art magazines in the 1920s.  So, stay tuned.