The paper magazine exploring the Gen X aging experience.

Geezer is a big, bold print-only magazine made by and for us—the first generation to grow up on re-runs and the last to come of age in analog. Delivered to your mailbox three times a year, Geezer goes deep on the issues that define us, the sandwich generation caring for kids and parents, doing its best to live with AI, and suffering the surprise crotch-kick of ageism.

We’re smart but not snarky. We’re funny but not goofy. Nostalgic, often. Creative, always. By publishing every four months, Geezer brings you original reporting and design, commentary, and poetry—and a dose of sophomoric humor and double entendres. All in an 11x15-inch coffee table magazine that is unapologetically tribal.

Subscribe and meet us in the basement by the Herculon couch.

The geezers behind Geezer

Laura LeBleu, a woman with long blonde hair wearing a denim jacket and black shirt standing outdoors near green trees, smiling with a confident expression.

Laura LeBleu

Laura LeBleu really wanted to be an ice skater, but growing up in El Paso, Texas, made that impossible so she became a writer instead. Along the way she has been many other things—Emmy award-winning TV producer, lead singer in an Italian band, voice of a virtual character, stilt-walking circus ringmaster, minor gay icon, NYC cabaret performer. But writing was always her jam. She got the idea for Geezer magazine in the shower. She has had many good ideas in the shower, but this is the one that stuck. Laura also wrote the dot-matrix-printed letter you can find on the Submission page. She was in college when she wrote it and shares it here to remind people of what it feels like to create with the irrepressible enthusiasm of youth.

Paul von Zielbauer, co-founder of Geezer magazine, older, good looking, but with tissue on his face where he cut himself shaving. It's pretty funny.

Paul von Zielbauer

Paul von Zielbauer isn't your average first-born son of European war-refugee parents from Aurora, Illinois. In his twenties, he rode a bicycle from Hanoi to Ho Chi Minh City back when most Americans thought of Vietnam only as a war they'd seen on TV. After 11 years as a journalist with The New York Times, which nominated his reporting for a Pulitzer Prize, Paul decided to leave the paper just as the Great Recession was getting started, to launch a business that got volunteers to build playgrounds for disadvantaged children overseas. Paul now brings that same impeccable market timing and business wizardry to Geezer, where he'll work quietly in the basement until Laura tells him it's okay to come upstairs.   

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