Luann by Greg Evans and Karen Evans for March 23, 2025

It is kind of sad that so many magazines have folded over the years.

Who would have thought ones like Entertainment Weekly or Mad Magazine would shut down?

Most everything is online these days… But to me it’s not the same. I enjoyed flipping through the pages of magazines.

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So why do I get the feeling that Luann is going to hang out with Mrs. Horner a lot more than she normally would? ;)

April 7, 1952, Life Magazine. I was two years old. Mrs. Horner would have been 21.

I’ve got ten prescriptions and no subscriptions.

And of Mrs Horner wants that on a T-shirt there are places on the Internet that will do it for you at a nominal price.

OK, a better than average Sunday strip.

1952? That was the year my mom was born. That is old!

P.S. This week’s title panel was fittingly Luann made up like an old-timey magazine cover model.

Esquire magazine still does print subscriptions. So does the New Yorker. Anyone know if Rolling Stone still does?

Scientific American still does print.

I used to have so many magazine subs. TV Guide, Sports Illustrated, Rolling Stone, Creem, Time, at least five other sports mags. Now, not a one.

You are really old when your transcriptions were read to you by ancient Egyptians.

Many women are very sensitive about their ages, and remain age 30 for about 40 years. But once they’re as far along as Mrs Horner, they quit pretending and start joking about it.

I still get the Saturday Evening Post: Reader’s Digest and National Geographic…

Amen Mrs. H.

Some of those ‘zines ae still around—although they’re on their last legs! It might not be long before ALL print media is obsolete!

I resemble that remark. Sigh. I’m too young to be old.

I have one mid-day med and it’s for blood pressure. It’s a morning and evening med, too. It’s a small pill. But, I take large one for BP in the morning, too. An evening pill is for both prostate and BP.

I only have one gripe about today’s comic: Phil is a CNA, a Certified Nursing Assistant. Why is he shown handling medications? Only nurses do that. I should know, because I’m a retired Licensed Vocational Nurse in California. There are some things that I’m not allowed to do, as an LVN or LPN, that I must be a Registered Nurse (RN). Giving medications thru an IV is a big one.

Gotta love Mrs. Horner.

Any time you say on the Internet, “I wish I had a teeshirt that says that,” a Chinese bot will scrape it and you’ll probably see one for sale on Facebook tomorrow.

Me too.

A vocation for Luann: t-shirt designer

National Geographic History, South Carolina Historical Society and National Rifle Association are my subscriptions.

I do not want to see Mrs. H. in a tee shirt.

When I was a kid, I’d go to the library and look through the old Life magazines from the 40s

I had a suspicion the prescriptions would replace the subscriptions.

I think Phil had the quickest Sunday page appearance of all the new characters. That’s probably another sign of how important he’ll be in the strip going forward. It’s always nice to see Luann spending time with Mrs. Horner. She really loves her mentor.

True, but don’t say it out loud.

I think Mrs. Horner will be Luann’s maid of honor at the wedding.

The Count has a t shirt that says DOGE.

What?

No Colliers or Mad Magazine subscriptions, Mrs Horner??

On a side note, looks like Phil is going to be a “fixture” in the Strip.

Wonder when his bio is going up? ;-)

Mrs. Horner is a Plugger for sure.

Bet she still has the one where she was Miss October and had a staple in her navel.

I miss LIFE magazine.

You’re old when you can read the INscriptions.

I used to subscribe to five photography magazines and four computer magazines. These days only one is in print format and two others are PDF only. So sad.

the best thing about magazines was it was easier to ignore the ads

LuAnn SHOULD say “Is that an old magazine? Wow! 2004!”

We had more than a few of those mags around our house. But for many, as time went on, the writing part got reduced and the picture part amplified.

Ha, we’re old and we’re gonna DIE, but let’s still have a chuckle, eh? Sheesh.

Funny….I want one too!

One reason I stopped buying print magazines is that in later years many of them got dumbed down in order to draw web surfers with short attention spans. I once found a copy of People Magazine from the mid 1990’s and it had lengthy in-depth articles and interviews as opposed to the brief snippets found in the current version. Time magazine got much thinner in later years as well.

When I was in college in the 80’s, I subscribed to both Time and Newsweek. It was interesting to read the same story from a Republican and a Democratic point of view. You know, back in the days when the two parties could agree to disagree without resorting to childish name calling and violence.

Luann is very good with good people, both old & young, who need a bit of help.

Hmm, no gloves on Phil? Is he loosening up?

When reading was educational and publications could be trusted

I remember Grit magazine.

Weekly Reader was a fav.

Lu Ann seems to be an “old soul.” When I was young and single, my best friends were elderly women neighbors. I always found their lives and the events they lived through fascinating.

Send it over to Pluggers!

Who remembers Highlights magazine? Goofus and Gallant??

XD i’m gonna turn that into a design. “You know your old when prescriptions replace subscriptions.”

That would make a good T-shirt or Meme.

I know Time is still in print because I keep getting a neighbors copy by mistake in the mail.

Maybe Brad can get a custom tee printed up via TJ’s friend who has that business.

Join us in several months as Mrs. Horner says that she played the first Lucy Van Pelt in ‘Peanuts’.

I have an electronics hobbyist magazine from the month and year of my birth. I saw it used somewhere and HAD to have it.

If there isn’t one, there are places that will make one for you.

Hey, 1952 was a good year! That’s why I’m 72 now, and turn 73 before Christmas (born after Eisenhower was elected but Truman was still President).

Marilyn Monroe made her debut on the cover of LIFE magazine on April 7, 1952, photographed by Philippe Halsman, marking a pivotal moment in her career and a collectible cover in the magazine’s history. (copied & pasted)

We have a few WW2 and prewar Popular Mechanics, interesting to see concepts that never went anywhere.

I stopped reading most magazines about the time People magazine became popular. I never understood the fascination with celebrity. I kept a subscription to Discover magazine and to the Smithsonian for quite awhile, but let those go in a big paper-purge when I realized that I read an issue in one sitting and would never pick it up again.

A LIFE Magazine from 1952 with Norma Jean on the cover. That serves as a reminder that whose of us who can still pay ir forward need to step up our efforts to do so. There are many out there who have no idea who Norma Jean is (by her stage name or otherwise). Is that important? Let me put it this way: I recently talked with someone who said she was a 27 year old schoolteacher who teaches history. Yet she had NO idea who JFK was! Kind of wonder what her idea of history is…….

Great t-shirt idea for sure ! ;-)

Gee thanks, I no longer have my Playboy, Sport Illustrated or TV Guide subscriptions, but do have several prescriptions.