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Posted: 2016-02-24T14:40:05Z | Updated: 2016-02-24T17:18:13Z

Gone are the days where one could walk down the street, pick up a physical copy of The Onion, finger through a couple pages, and enjoy a laugh that sounded more like a scream.

That isn't to say that we don't have easy access to mind-blowing satire. Culture-skewering machines like Clickhole , Reductress , Starwipe , Above Average , Funny or Die News , McSweeneys and The Onion keep us gasping at our laptops everyday while we pretend to have jobs. Good comedy isn't hard to find, but I don't think I'm breaking news when I say that humor is shrinking with our attention spans.

Most of our gut-busting content lives and dies by the tweet it's attached to, or whatever humorists can put in that box to make you stop scrolling down your feed. Best-case scenario, you stop scrolling long enough to smirk at the title, NOT read the article, send it to your friend, and keep scrolling.

Janice Magazine , an illustration and humor magazine in the style of The New Yorker (if The New Yorker just grew boobs and wanted to tell everybody about it) hopes to be the antidote to our disposable attitude towards comedy. The creators/contributors for Janice are Upright Citizens Brigade mainstays Ryan Haney and Matthew Brian Cohen with art by New York Times' Malle Doliveux . Currently, they're running a Kickstarter to fund the release of their second print issue. The cover of the first issue can be seen below and its contents can be read here . If nothing else, check out "A Review of the Playstation 4 and My Own Wasted Potential" or "Time to Take Action Against Climate Change Without Letting Earth Getting All Cocky About It."

The Huffington Post spoke with Ryan, Matthew, and Malle about their decision to commit to print, and why making something great is better than trying to break the Internet.