We’re hosting a panel discussion and groovy little happening to celebrate the opening of “Blowing Minds: The East Village Other, the Rise of Underground Comix and the Alternative Press, 1965-1972.” Join us online or in person tomorrow.

Rex Weiner co-founded The East Village Other’s successor, the pioneering New York Ace (1972–73) and according to his FBI file, was a founding staff member of High Times. He recalls getting his start at EVO.

Abe Peck, once Abraham Yippie, wrote Uncovering the Sixties: The Life and Times of the Underground Press. Here, he tells why The East Village Other was different. In short: because it colored outside the lines.

Lynda Crawford looks back on one of her most popular items in EVO (an analysis of John and Yoko’s blueberry-blintz dinner) and also her most regrettable one.

Musician, writer, filmmaker and activist Michael Simmons wonders whether the sex-soaked brand of activism espoused by The World’s Oldest Living Hippie can make a comeback.

The only time I really ever wrote anything for EVO was when Walter Bowart, high on something, called me up and said, “Bob, you are the only straight-looking guy we have around the office. We have to do something for Leary. He just got busted up in Millbrook.” Hmm. So Walter and I cooked up […]

Larry “Ratso” Sloman recounts what happened the day Abbie Hoffman dragged him and Peter Leggieri out of the East Village Other office to witness his attack on Wall Street.

A look at FBI files pertaining to the East Village Other’s mission to bomb the pentagon with flowers.

Sixties survivors often snicker when reminded of the Great Banana-Peel Smoking Hoax. But how did it start?

Yossarian, a revered member of the underground comix tribe, recalls the eccentric documentarian who brought Bob Dylan out of his shell.

Dan Rattiner, founder of Dan’s Papers, was also a co-founder of The East Village Other. But due to the Mafia and a fateful shareholders meeting, he never got his piece of the pie.

Kim Deitch says he got his start as a working artist thanks to the man who ran The East Village Other: a staunch Republican, as it turns out.

An EVO groupie on the unsung hero of the comix revolution, Bill Beckman.

Patrick Rosenkranz on the birth of Gothic Blimp Works, and the great illustrators of its day: R. Crumb, Kim Deitch, Spain Rodriguez, and Art Spiegelman.

Ed Sanders’s East Village-based journal heralded a “mimeo revolution” of small presses, and featured some of the neighborhood’s most recognizable names. Its full run goes on display this month.

The illustrator’s life as a comic book writer started with a bad acid trip through the Lower East Side.

She started as secretary and by the end of EVO’s run, she was the underground paper’s defacto publisher.

In its early issues, The East Village Other began featuring a “Slum Goddess,” a title that was taken from a Fugs song. Here’s the story of two of them.

A former writer for the East Village Other remembers how editor Jaakov Kohn nurtured talent that other publications could not absorb. Plus: R. Crumb’s famous pie-throwing incident.