History
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. 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. Later the paper evolved a more colorful psychedelic layout that became a distinguishing characteristic of the underground papers of the time.
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