St. Louis Journalism Review, June 1st, 2001
After 40 years and 146 issues, the satirical magazine The Realist has retired after its founder pronounced that it had served its purpose of providing readers with absurdity and irreverence about social and political developments.
Paul Krassner, who founded the magazine in 1958 with 600 subscribers, published the last issue in spring 2001.
The counterculture favorite, which never accepted advertising, gathered 100,000 subscribers by 1967, but had to take an 11-year hiatus beginning in 1974, due to lack of funding. By its final issue, the circulation was between 5,000 and 7,000, according t...
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