For the last several years, the fastest-growing market in the magazine industry has been men's periodicals–not Playboy or Penthouse, mind you, but rather a new array of publications that feature semi-nude pictures of young, would-be starlets. Led by British import Maxim, a fleshy blanket of imitators has covered newsstands: FHM, Stun!, Razor, Stuff, etc., etc. Media critics have treated this as a distasteful, yet undeniable, new trend in publishing. In truth, however, it's just the resuscitation of a style of magazine that disappeared in the late '60s: the cheap girlie mag. {Read More}
From Cocktail No. 5, 1959; illustrator uncredited.
