X-Nico

5 unusual facts about Underground Press Syndicate


NOLA Express

In 1967, the cooperative Underground Press Syndicate (UPS) was formed at the instigation of the publisher of another early paper, the East Village Other.

Ron Cobb

Cobb's editorial/political cartoons were a celebrated feature of the Freep, and appeared regularly throughout member newspapers of the Underground Press Syndicate.

Underground Press Syndicate

Walter Bowart and John Wilcock of EVO, with Michael Kindman of The Paper in East Lansing, Michigan, took the lead in inviting the other papers to join.

For many years the Underground Press Syndicate was run by Tom Forcade, who later founded High Times magazine.

LNS, founded by Marshall Bloom and Ray Mungo that summer, would play an equally important and complementary role in the growth and evolution of the underground press in the United States.



see also