Jun
23
Felix Dennis, Founder of Maxim and The Week, Dies at 67
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Felix Dennis, the larger-than-life publishing magnate who founded Maxim magazine and nurtured some of the biggest names in media, died Sunday at his home in the U.K., according to a statement posted to his website. He was 67 and had battled throat cancer since 2012.
“Felix was a real swashbuckling innovator,” Steven Kotok, CEO of Dennis Publishing, which owns The Week and Mental Floss, told Ad Age. “He was willing to try new things and take wild chances.”
Those wild chances began in 1967, when Mr. Dennis co-founded Oz, a counter-culture magazine that sparked a high-profile obscenity trial in Great Britain.
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