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ANNOUNCING “OTHER SCENES”.

A broadside produced by John Wilcock, reprinting an advertisement from the November 24, 1966 issue of the Village Voice announcing Other Scenes, “a fortnightly gazette [that] will begin appearing twice monthly in January 1967.” Printed in black on pale cream paper stock. 38x24.5cm. Illustrated with a photograph of Wilcock on the phone (the layout differs slightly from the ad. as it originally appeared).

British journalist Wilcock arrived in New York in 1954 and helped co-found the Village Voice in the following year, working as news editor and contributing a column called ‘The Village Square’. He left in 1965 to edit New York’s first underground paper, The East Village Other, but after its publisher Walter Bowart ran a negative review of Warhol’s “Chelsea Girls”, he quit and began publishing Other Scenes, a subscription-only newsletter named after his regular EVO column.

As the ad. here states, he intended his new paper to print “news of the avant garde and sympathetic and sometimes cynical comment on art, politics, pornography, religion, pot, sociology, humor.” Produced in parallel with his travel books for Arthur Frommer (“Mexico on $5 A Day” and similar titles), issues were published internationally, first (and most frequently) in New York, as well as from Los Angeles, San Francisco, London, Athens, Tokyo, Stockholm, Venice, and India, often in collaboration with other underground papers, among them the Los Angeles Free Press, Oz magazine, and Shinjuku Sutra, Japan’s first underground paper.

Soft central horizontal fold and trivial edge-wear, o/w Near Fine.

A rare copy of the earliest ephemera from John Wilcock’s Other Scenes, predating the paper’s first publication.

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