Twas no Sassy, but Jane Pratt‘s follow-up, Jane, was a scrappy addition to the bloated women’s mag market in 1997, and remained as such until our hero Christina Kelly left. Pratt herself got the heave a couple years back, and today the mag was shut down completely. We haven’t read it in years, but it hurts a little anyway — that’s two mags (the other was Premiere, killed in April) we once loved that are now dead. It’s nice they went out with Zooey Deschanel instead of Amanda Bynes or someone.
This article appears in Jul 5-11, 2007.