East Village Other - Definition and Overview

The East Village Other (often abbreviated as EVO), was a leading underground newspaper in New York City during the late 1960s. First published in late 1965, it was among the first countercultural newspapers to emerge (the Los Angeles Free Press had begun publishing a few months earlier), and it was the first to adopt the colorful psychedelic layout that became a distinguishing characteristic of the underground papers of the time. 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.

EVO was an important publication for the underground comix movement, featuring comic strips by artists including Trina Robbins, Spain Rodriguez, Art Spiegelman and Kim Deitch well before the movement got under way in San Francisco with the first Zap Comix. During 1969, EVO also published eight issues of Gothic Blimp Works, an all-comics tabloid with some color printing, billed as "the first Sunday underground comic paper." Vaughn Bode edited the first two issues, Kim Deitch edited the rest.

EVO ceased publication in early 1972.

External links

• The Life and Death Of The East Village Other by Alexander Gross

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