 East Village Other (April 16 – May 1, 1967) | |
| Type | Biweekly newspaper |
|---|---|
| Founder(s) | Walter Bowart, Allen Katzman, Sherry Needham, Ishmael Reed, John Wilcock |
| Publisher | Walter Bowart |
| Editor-in-chief | John Wilcock |
| Founded | October 1, 1965 in New York City |
| Ceased publication | March 1, 1972 |
| Headquarters | New York, NY |
| Circulation | 65,000 (1970) |
| ISSN | 0012-8562 |
| Free online archives | voices.revealdigital.org |
The East Village Other (often abbreviated as EVO) was an American underground newspaper in New York City, issued biweekly during the 1960s. It was described by The New York Times as "a New York newspaper so countercultural that it made The Village Voice look like a church circular".[1]
Published by Walter Bowart, EVO was among the first countercultural newspapers to emerge. EVO was one of the founding members of the Underground Press Syndicate, a network that allowed member papers to freely reprint each other's contents.[2]
The paper's design, in its first years, was characterized by Dadaistic montages and absurdist, non-sequitur headlines,[3] including regular invocations of the "Intergalactic World Brain."[4] Later, the paper evolved a more colorful psychedelic layout that became a distinguishing characteristic of the underground papers of the time.
EVO was an important publication for the underground comix movement, featuring comic strips by artists including Robert Crumb, Kim Deitch, Trina Robbins, Spain Rodriguez, Gilbert Shelton and Art Spiegelman, before underground comic books emerged from San Francisco with the first issue of Zap Comix.
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- ^ Burks, John (October 4, 1969). "The Underground Press: A Special Report". Rolling Stone. pp. 11–33.
- ^ Ulin, David L. (March 14, 1996). "Netizens of the World, Unite". Los Angeles Times.