The East Village Inky

13/09/2025

HEY NYC! We don't wanna tell you how to live your life or anything. Wejust want you to get your tail to Pete's Candy Store in Williamsburg on Saturday the 20th for Pete's Mini Zine Fest!

The East Village Inky will be tabling indoors and would be delig hed to hoist a beer with you, and fix you up with zines and books. Get all your holiday shopping done. (Uh...anything in particular you want me to bring?)

Look at this nifty line up!

07/09/2025

Re: East Village Inky 67: The Vonnegut Centennial Issue (link in first comment), our friend, Suzanne McConnell, Kurty V's student and author of Pity the Reader: On Writing With Style, is teaching a 3-part course at the 92nd St Y this October that traces the origins of Kurt Vonnegut’s passionately humanistic sensibility, how he learned his craft, and how he conveys his far-reaching, prophetic perspective and values in his work. Git it!

Roundtable is live, in-the-moment online classes with respected and passionate experts who give you a place at the table to ask questions, join a discussion, and satisfy your curious mind.

05/09/2025

Goin' into the weekend like Dynamite!
Specifically, Issue 5, with cover girl Elsa the lioness. Stumbled on a 9-year-old blog post that has lots of interior screenshots. Consider this supplemental reading for East Village Inky 71, The Only Child of the 70s issue! https://bronzeagebabies.blogspot.com/2016/06/guest-post-buried-treasures-dynamite.html

18/08/2025

Rock Dove swooping in to announce the theme of East Village Inky 72: Half My Life in NYC

NYC birds and NYC people have a lot in common.

PS: the latest episode of the world’s most ridiculous birding podcast is here… https://lnk.to/extremelyaccuratebirdsongs

13/08/2025

Ex-Circulation Manager Jambo is thrilled to announce that PANTHER CITY: Tales of Gen X Grade 3 Class Project Run Amok, the new book by Ayun Halliday, Chief Primatologist of The East Village Inky zine is NOW AVAILABLE FOR PRE-ORDER on Kickstarter.

Who will be the first to pre-order? Who will be the 2nd, 3rd, 29th, 100th? Go get em! Once we hit the goal, it's off to the printer!
Plenty of weird and wonderful swag at every level to enhance your reading experience.

Shout out to 8-year-old illustrator, Leni Yow-Fairs, who just turned 9 :)

This post is public, and we'd be much obliged if you'd consider widening the ripples with a share. THANK YOU!

https://www.kickstarter.com/.../panther-city-tales-of-a...
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/ayunhalliday/panther-city-tales-of-a-gen-x-grade-3-project-run-amok

Put down your digital devices and take a trip to 1973 in a hilarious, illustrated comedy of elementary school manners for adults.

09/06/2025

Supplemental materials for EAST VILLAGE INKY 71: The Only Child of the 70s issue.

The Miss America Pageant Game. Perhaps we really have come a long way, baby. Still plenty of road ahead.

Get you some: https://www.ayunhalliday.com/shop/p/east-village-inky-71

05/06/2025

Today's my 30th NYC-versary! I reckon that's as good a theme as any for East Village Inky 72!

Got any burning NYC questions? I've lived her half my life, apparently!

02/06/2025

EAST VILLAGE INKY 71: Only Child of the 70s
GET IT!

https://www.ayunhalliday.com/shop/p/east-village-inky-71

02/06/2025

Zine star Bill McCall has favored East Village Inky 71, The Only Child of the 70s issue with a preview on I LOVE ZINES

https://www.ayunhalliday.com/shop

31/05/2025

Hey you nifty numbers.

If you are in NYC, might I importune you to spend an evening with Greg's new hour long post-apocalyptic bluegrass musical, THE END OF ALL FLESH? It won Best Musical in the NYC Fringe last April, and we decided to keep it going a bitsy. To that end, 4 more Mondays in June. Come see. I'm in it! He's in it! It's funny! The band's smokin'! And I think it might well be your kind of mayhem. We're taking a bit of a gamble w/ this "extension" performing exclusively on Monday nights at an early bird special type hour, but hey... possibly just nutty enough to work!

Behold! Vive la revolution!

The End of All Flesh, a post-apocalyptic, cautionary bluegrass tale by Greg Kotis (Urinetown) now playing in New York City

14/09/2024

The Mailroom Böyz inform me that there's a large percentage of East Village Inky readers in NYC, but there are a few in driving distance of Nyack or Portsmouth, New Hampshire. (As non drivers, our concept of American geography is a bit creative...)

The Chief Primatologist's solo show NURSE! is popping up in all three over the next couple of weeks, and I'd love to clap eyes on any and all of you from those tiny stages (one of which appears to be the back room of a tattoo business? Hi ho! Glamour!)

9/16 - NURSE! 1 Night Only - NYACK
9/18 - NURSE! 1 Night Only - NYC
9/27-29 Nurse! PORTSMOUTH!

NURSE! is back for the first time since 2018. Juliet’s Nurse is on the road, deploying her eyewitness observations to […]

27/08/2024

The theme for East Village Inky is:

ONLY CHILD OF THE 70s.
70s Nostalgia received the most first place votes, Only Child received the most votes overall (and has some extremely persuasive lobbyists.).

Given how difficult it is for me to disentangle these 2 topics in my own mind, the election judges spproved me to give ‘em a simultaneous go.

We’ll get to all the topics eventually. Well, maybe not Art.. Philistines!

i’ll get crackin. You’ve got a couple months to order back issues, stickers, gift, subscriptions, and CREATIVE, NOT FAMOUS: The Small Potato Manifesto to lessen the interminable wait.
Thanks to all who voted.