Bop (magazine)

{{Short description|Defunct American entertainment magazine for children and teens}}

{{italic title}}{{Use American English|date=April 2023}}

{{Use mdy dates|date=April 2023}}{{Infobox magazine

| title = Bop

| image_file = Bop, June 1989.jpg

| image_caption = Cover of the June 1989 issue, featuring Debbie Gibson, Corey Haim, New Kids on the Block, Alyssa Milano, Johnny Depp, and Kirk Cameron

| category = Teenage

| company = Laufer Media

| frequency = Monthly

| firstdate = 1983

| finaldate = July 2014

| country = United States

| language = English

}}

Bop magazine was a monthly American entertainment magazine for children 10 years of age and teenagers. It began publication in the summer of 1983{{cite news|author1=César G. Soriano|title=Cornering the teenzine market Boy-band craze makes Primedia most popular in class|url=http://web.ics.purdue.edu/~natt/teenzine.htm|access-date=February 28, 2016|work=USA Today|page=7D|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161220135029/http://web.ics.purdue.edu/~natt/teenzine.htm|archive-date=December 20, 2016|url-status=dead}} and was published by Laufer Media, which also publishes Tiger Beat magazine.{{cite news |title='Tween' magazines survive, though older sisters have faded (Published 2007) |work=The New York Times |date=May 28, 2007 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230501140848/https://www.nytimes.com/2007/05/28/technology/28iht-tween.1.5893663.html |archive-date=2023-05-01 |url-status=live |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2007/05/28/technology/28iht-tween.1.5893663.html |last1=Olson |first1=Elizabeth }} The headquarters of Bop was in Studio City, California.

Popular features included articles, mini-mags, interviews, and the Fly Free To Hollywood contest, where readers had to correctly guess the stars, whether it was identifying their eyes, finding their names in a word search, or identifying them by their hair (the photos had the celebrities with their faces blacked out). A spinoff magazine, Big Bopper, later called BB, was released in the fall of 1986 and was published until 2000. Bop and Tiger Beat were very similar, as they share an editor and feature the same celebrities. Bop was sold by its founders (Julie Jenkins, Teena Naumann, Kerry Laufer and Scott Laufer) to Primedia in 1998.{{cite news|title=Primedia Buying Teen Beat, Tiger Beat|url=https://apnews.com/780adf12fdc684a579be38bb871b2d23|access-date=February 28, 2016|work=Associated Press News|date=December 15, 1998}} Primedia sold it (along with Tiger Beat) to Scott Laufer in 2003.{{cite web |title=Names Change, but Hearts Beat the Same |date=July 21, 1998 |website=Los Angeles Times |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160303222121/https://articles.latimes.com/1998/jul/21/entertainment/ca-5551 |archive-date=March 3, 2016 |url-status=live |url=https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1998-jul-21-ca-5551-story.html}} Bop ceased publication in July 2014.{{cite web |author=Lewis |first=Casey |date=August 1, 2014 |title=The Tragic History of Fallen Teen Magazines |url=http://thehairpin.com/2014/08/the-tragic-history-of-fallen-teen-magazines/ |url-status=usurped |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151004224017/http://thehairpin.com/2014/08/the-tragic-history-of-fallen-teen-magazines/ |archive-date=October 4, 2015 |access-date=October 26, 2015 |work=The Hairpin}}