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The East Village Other (often abbreviated as EVO), was an American underground newspaper in New York City, New York, 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, following the Los Angeles Free Press, which had begun publishing a few months earlier. It 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.
The East Village Other was co-founded October 1965 by Walter Bowart, Ishmael Reed (who named the newspaper), Allen Katzman, Dan Rattiner, Sherry Needham and John Wilcock.[1] It began as a monthly and then went biweekly.
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.
The paper's design, in its first years, was characterized by Dadaistic montages and absurdist, non-sequitur headlines.[2] Later, the paper evolved a more colorful psychedelic layout that became a distinguishing characteristic of the underground papers of the time.
Early EVO issues featured the work of Bill Beckman, Deitch and Rodriguez, soon adding other artists. The popularity of these strips led to the publication of separate comics tabloids, beginning with Zodiac Mindwarp by Rodriguez. During 1969, EVO published eight issues of Ralph Reese, Steve Stiles, S. Clay Wilson, Bernie Wrightson and Bhob Stewart (who became Gothic Blimp Works' second editor).
Comics historian Patrick Rosenkranz recalled his reaction to EVO:
The paper published another short-lived spin-off title, Kiss, a sex-oriented paper that was designed to compete with Al Goldstein's tabloid Screw. There were several other spin-off titles published at the same time, including Gay Power (a New York-centric Gay Lib paper which survived for about a year), and a brief-lived astrology paper.
At its peak, EVO had a 60,000 circulation. In 1968, Bowart departed, moving to Tucson, where he founded Omen Press, publishing metaphysical books. As 1971 drew to a close, publication of EVO became more and more sporadic. It faced mounting financial difficulties along with increasing staff losses, and the paper ceased publication forever in March 1972.[4]
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