mikemodeler Posted June 12, 2020 Posted June 12, 2020 Just wondering if anyone else subscribes to CARtoons? I saw it was back and have been getting the magazine for a couple of issues now, brings me back to my youth and when times were simpler.
unclescott58 Posted June 12, 2020 Posted June 12, 2020 I subscribed the first year after it came back. I don't know why, but I just didn't enjoy it as much as I did as a kid. So I let it go.
TonyK Posted June 12, 2020 Posted June 12, 2020 Didn't know it existed but will take a look. Used to buy one once in awhile when I was a kid......50 years ago!
mikemodeler Posted June 12, 2020 Author Posted June 12, 2020 36 minutes ago, TonyK said: Didn't know it existed but will take a look. Used to buy one once in awhile when I was a kid......50 years ago! I just got my new issue yesterday- shipped in a plain white envelope that wasn't mangled by the USPS. The subscription price is $29.95 for 6 issues per year (sound familiar?). I also get an email letting me know I can view the digital version before I get the printed version. The subscription also lets me view back issues.
iamsuperdan Posted June 12, 2020 Posted June 12, 2020 I used to get this back in the 80s. When I heard it was coming back, I made sure to buy the first couple of issues. Much like Scott above, I just wasn't into it anymore. I still like that they're trying though.
keyser Posted June 12, 2020 Posted June 12, 2020 Didn't know it was back. Really funny. Grumpy Vega coming back, they had a few panels about "Stumpy Gherkins". I still call him that, huge fan of his. Funny stuff. I'm about 12yo humor wise, but sounds doubtful.
unclescott58 Posted June 12, 2020 Posted June 12, 2020 (edited) 2 hours ago, iamsuperdan said: I used to get this back in the 80s. When I heard it was coming back, I made sure to buy the first couple of issues. Much like Scott above, I just wasn't into it anymore. I still like that they're trying though. I like what you had to say at the end, above Dan. Again, even though it didn't hold me as subscriber. I too am glad they have brought it back, and I hope that turns out to be a big success. As I've noted before, I work in a high school, and today's kids don't look at magazines. Much less read them. In paper form, or digital. There are many kids who love and know all about different comic book characters, but have never read a comic book. I'm not quite sure how that works. With they're over all reading habits, I don't see any magazine, much less CARtoons, having any real chance of lasting very long. There are too many other things holding they're attention now days. I hope I'm wrong. Back when I was a kid, in the 1960's and into the early 70's, our whole family lived on magazines. With us kids also consuming tons of comic books. Go on a trip? All we practically did was read comic books or Mad magazines in the back seat of the car. Our family subscribed to Life. Dad read Field and Stream and True. My mother, Better Homes and Gardens and others of that ilk. In the 70's, she loved the National Enquirer. My sisters, read things liked Tiger Beat and 16. I read just about anything on cars. Motor Trend, Hot Rod, Car and Driver, Road & Track, Car Life, Road Test, Car Models, and of course, CARtoons. I also got and liked Boys Life. But the favorite of both my dad and I was Mechanix Illustrated. We even swapped magazines with neighbors. Since we got Life, and they got Look, the two magazines would go from one house to another. I also remember kids in Junior High back in the day, stealing magazines from the school library. The latest issue of Hot Rod and others, rarely last very long there. Today, what is left of our high school library, I'm not sure they even carry any magazines anymore? I know they don't have sets of encyclopedias anymore. Another staple of my childhood reading. So good luck to the new CARtoons. I hope they are successful, and are around years from now. But, I'm not holding my breath. A funny side note. Just as I'm finishing this up, a friend calls, wondering what I'm doing for lunch? He and another friend are going to lunch and they want to see me and my new car. After agreeing and just before I hung up the phone, he tells me he also four Hemmings Motor News magazines to pass on to me. So, in my case, I'm still reading and swapping magazines all these years later. Edited June 12, 2020 by unclescott58
BlackSheep214 Posted June 16, 2020 Posted June 16, 2020 Oh man, I used to buy that magazine. Along with MAD and Cracked magazines. LOL....
64Comet404 Posted June 16, 2020 Posted June 16, 2020 I've seen it on the magazine rack, but haven't been able to get into it the way I did when I was a kid. I see that Krass and Bernie has returned to CarToons now that Car Craft is defunct, but buying a magazine for four pages of artwork is not my thing, unfortunately.
RancheroSteve Posted June 16, 2020 Posted June 16, 2020 A few years ago, the Los Angeles County Museum put on a small show featuring a lot of original artwork from CarToons. I didn't take a whole lot of photos - the rest of what I have are at the link: CarToons Show
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