Steven Heller’s Dada

by Steven Heller

Robert Hughes once described the weekly paste-up night at The East Village Other as “a Dada experience.” The year was 1970 and while none of us who were toiling into the wee hours of the morning at one of America’s oldest underground papers (founded in 1965) knew what he was talking about...

The 1960s Youthquake

by Alex Gross

From 1965 until 1971, this underground newspaper struck fear into the hearts of millions of Americans. But countless other Americans welcomed it as a glorious ray of hope and joy...

Founding of The East Village Other

by Dan Rattiner

It cost 15 cents and was an enormous piece of newsprint all folded up into tabloid size. The four pages, when unfolded looked more like a work of modern art than a newspaper. this before; most people just used it to mimic the old...

John Wilcock Interviews John Wilcock

by John Wilcock

Q. How did you know Walter Bowart?

A. When I went to Japan to revise my book, "Japan on $5 a Day", I had been dating Sherry Needham. When I returned, he was dating her...

EVO and ‘The New Vision’

by Ed Sanders

I first knew Walter Bowart around 1963 or ’64 when he was a bartender at Stanley’s Bar, located at 12th Street and Avenue B. Bowart was an artist who did some design work in early 1965 for LeMar, the Committee to Legalize Marijuana...

The Miltonian Origin of The Other

by Ishmael Reed

My receiving a job as the editor of a newspaper in Newark, N.J., led to the origin of The East Village Other. I worked a number of temporary jobs from the time I arrived in New York in the fall of 1962 until I left for California in the summer of 1967...

That Time, That Place

by Claudia Dreifus

Sometime in the late 1960s, I was working, unhappily, for Local 1199 of the Drug and Hospital Workers Union here in New York City. There were dozens of reasons why I was miserable with the job; the main ones being that I wasn’t particularly good at it and that I really wanted to write...

How Green Was My Underground

by Steve Kraus

Will Rogers, the late cracker-barrel cowboy philosopher, once remarked that America was the only country in history to ride to the poor-house in a Cadillac limousine. It is also the only country in history to have had an underground press...

Tripping the Lightbox Fantastic

by Charlie Frick

Psychedelic Design Made Easy...

Jaakov Kohn, the Publisher, and the Pie

by Ray Schultz

The defining moment of the 1960s for me came when Jaakov Kohn said, “Think of The East Village Other as your Jewish mother...

Handmaiden, Slum Goddess, Reporter

by Coca Crystal

The first time I set foot in the EVO office, it was in the fall of 1969 and I had come to visit with a college friend...

Finding Sanctuary at EVO

by Trina Robbins

It was autumn, 1966. I had come to New York from Los Angeles only months before...

Where Underground Comix Lurched Into Life

by Patrick Rosenkranz

I never worked for The East Village Other but I was a captivated reader from the first time I picked up an issue in 1966...

Bill Beckman and EVO’s Own Touch of Evil

by Bob Simmons

I came to EVO in late 1965. I think the paper was about three issues old. Walter Bowart had quit his job as a bartender at the Dom on St. Marks Place...

Ode to Joel Fabrikant

by Kim Deitch

He was a roughneck. He certainly wasn’t politically correct and his blunt management style definitely took getting used to...

EVO, the Mafia, and the Takeover That Wasn’t

by Dan Rattiner

The end of my real involvement with The East Village Other came as something I perceived as a betrayal...

One-Legged Terry, Bob Dylan and a Drawing for the Ace

by Yossarian

How One-Legged Terry became a member of A.J. Weberman’s circle fades into the mists of memory...

EVO, the FBI and the Plot to Bomb the Pentagon

by Jason Katzman

I can’t honestly remember how I became interested in The East Village Other...

Timothy Leary
and the Raid on Millbrook

by Bob Simmons

The only time I really ever wrote anything for EVO was when Walter Bowart, high on something, called me up and said...

EVO, Tuli and the Kiss Corps

by Michael Simmons

The funniest part of reminiscing about the uber-subversive East Village Other...

John and Yoko’s Leftovers
and EVO’s Post-Salad Days

by Lynda Crawford

Breathless — not just from the late-night climb up 11 flights to the EVO office on East 12th Street...

Why EVO Mattered

by Abe Peck

Starting in the mid-1960s, in the zone between 14th Street and Houston...

There Is Always The Other

by Rex Weiner

My first week aboard The East Village Other, its venerable editor-in chief Jaakov Kohn squinted at the name I’d signed to an article...

I Got My Gig Through the
East Village Other

by Joe Kane

When I first migrated to Manhattan from Queens in 1970, it was with dreams of becoming a working scribe...

Fan-O-Gram to the East Village Other

by Alan Abramson

The times were overwhelming. America was violently awakened from the slumber of the 1950s on Nov. 22, 1963 and quickly found itself inhabiting an unrecognizable, incomprehensible, rapidly evolving reality...

Anatomy of the Great
Banana-Smoking Hoax of 1967

by Brooke Kroeger and Cary Abrams

Sixties survivors often snicker when reminded of the Great Banana-Peel Smoking Hoax...

Allen Katzman and J.C. Suares on the
Reportage of Wonderment

by Brooke Kroeger

By Issue No. 2, the East Village Other had a team of publishers and actual papers of incorporation...

Suze Rotolo and Edie Sedgwick, Slum Goddesses

by The Local East Village

In its early issues, The East Village Other began featuring a "Slum Goddess"...

Larry ‘Ratso’ Sloman: EVO and Abbie Hoffman’s Occupy Wall Street

by Larry Sloman

In Larry “Ratso” Sloman’s 1998 book, “Steal This Dream: Abbie Hoffman and the Counter-Culture Revolution in America,” he recounts what happened the day Abbie Hoffman...

Susan Goodrick, 1974
interview with R. Crumb
in R. Crumb: CONVERSATIONS

Edited by D.K. Holm

We got into his ’47 Pontiac and headed south till we reached the farm, a modest five-acre spread. It was chore time...

The EVO Takeover That Never Was and the Mafia That
Never Were

by Peter Leggieri

Dan Rattiner’s reminiscence “EVO, the Mafia, and the Takeover That Wasn’t” has so many factual errors and omissions that it should be labeled semi-fiction.

Peter Leggieri’s East Village Other

by Peter Leggieri

From the first day that I began working at The East Village Other, I was overcome by the sense that it was not only a newspaper but a strange and magical ship on a voyage with destiny.

I Was a Sex Fiend for a Great Metropolitan Newspaper

by Dean Latimer

The East Village Other succeeded in offending even me with the first article of mine they ever published, in February of 1967.

Remembering Yossarian, ‘Original Hipster and Legendary Cartoonist’

by Lynda Crawford

Underground cartoonist Yossarian (a.k.a. Alan Shenker, Captain Stanley, Mr. Buddy) died on Jan. 14 at Beth Israel Hospital.