THE VILLAGE VOICE, USA (NYC)

    THE VILLAGE VOICE is an American news and culture paper based in Greenwich Village, New York City, known for being the country's first alternative newsweekly. Founded in 1955 by Dan Wolf, Ed Fancher and Norman Mailer, the Voice began as a platform for the creative community of New York City.
    Since its founding, THE VILLAGE VOICE has received three Pulitzer Prizes, the National Press Foundation Award and the George Polk Award. It has hosted a variety of writers and artists, including writer Ezra Pound, cartoonist Lynda Barry, and art critics Robert Christgau, Andrew Sarris and J. Hoberman.
    In 1996, after decades of carrying a cover price, The VOICE switched from a paid weekly to a free, alternative weekly. It stopped printed publication in 2017.
    After a 3 years interruption, a spring print edition was released in April 2021, and the VOICE's website continues to feature archival material related to current events, with articles often generated by an A.I. 

Thank you to Eric Galzi and Jürgen Wasser for the improved images.

    Below is the first VILLAGE VOICE cover (20 July 1961) showing the then unknown Bob Dylan playing harmonica at the Café Wha? in New York City. He is on stage with folk singers Karen Dalton and Fred Neil (white shirt). The drummer and the other guitarist have not been identified. The photo is credited to Gin Briggs, who had been the newspaper's staff photographer since 1957; a similar photograph, dated 8 February 1961, is credited to Fred McDarrah, who took over from Briggs as its staff photographer in August 1962.
   Thank you to Dari Silverman and Ian Woodward for these documents and the information. [0126]

20 July 1961

"Unstoppable Hootenanny ..."

2 September 1965 The next issue (9 September) has no Dylan cover, but an advert for Dylan's upcoming Carnegie Hall and Newark concerts and an article entitled "Like A Rolling Stone", which was actually about Claude Thornhill, a jazz band leader. Thank you to Ian Woodward.	26 January 1967	25 January 1968
10 January 1974	7 February 1974	7 July 1975
VOICE ARTS, supplement 3 November 1975	10 November 1975	This is not a front cover, but possibly a flyer or similar referring to Renaldo & Clara and promoting the 30 January 1978 issue where several critics reviewed the movie. Thank you to Ian Woodward
24 February 1998	January 2002	7-10 February 2007, 2 pages
November 2007	9-15 August 2017	20 September 2017, Final Edition. Bob Dylan is on the cover, saluting the last printed edition of the famous NYC newspaper, after 62 years of paper publications.