On Sale T-Shirt of the Week: The East Village Other

The East Village Other (EVO) was one of the first American counter cultural newspapers, following the Los Angeles Free Press which had begun just a few months earlier. Started in New York City in 1965 the original founders where Walter Bowart, Ishmael Reed, Allen Katzman, Dan Rattiner, John Wilcock and Sherry Needham.

EVO was an important outlet for the underground comix movement as well, publishing comic strips from some of the emerging cartoonist prior to the San Francisco launching of Zap Comix in 1968. Some of the artist who's work was featured included Trina Robbins, Kim Deitch, Art Spiegelman, Spain Rodriguez, Robert Crumb, Jay Lynch and many others.

In 1969 EVO began publishing Gothic Blimp Works, an all comics tabloid with some color printing, billed as "the first Sunday underground comic paper."

That same year EVO editor Jaakov Kohn covered Woodstock and wrote while attending the event: "We are home and at peace with each other and ourselves. I think you will find we have changed and grown. I don't want to leave, but I guess we must. The only thing is, how can I come back and do the old things? This is how we should live. Can we? -----Peace-John" The newspaper closed it's doors in 1972.

Enjoy 20% saving of this East Village Other T-Shirt cover draw by R. Crumb,from February 11, 1970. Available in white, black, camel, olive, paprika, charcoal, city green and yellow haze. Size S-3X.

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