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Seed
Series
Identifier:
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Description
Seed was an underground newspaper published biweekly in Chicago, Illinois from May 1967 to 1974; there were 121 issues published in total. It was notable for its colorful psychedelic graphics and its eclectic, non-doctrinaire radical politics, and was a member of the Underground Press Syndicate. It was a DIY operation: in the Seed office copy was set on an IBM Selectric and pasted up, negatives were made and stripped up for plate-making, and inks were mixed to take to the printer. The Seed, along with the San Francisco Oracle, was one of the first tabloid newspapers to use "split fount" inking on a web press. At its peak it circulated between 30 and 40,000 copies, with national distribution. Important events covered by Seed writers and artists were the trial of the Chicago Eight, Woodstock, and the murder of Fred Hampton. After losing its original printer in 1968 it was printed for a time on the presses of liberal Wisconsin newspaper publisher Bill Schanen, who provided printing services for a large number of Midwestern underground papers that could find no other printer.(Taken from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chicago_Seed_(newspaper))
Related people
Don Lewis (creator)Earl Segal (artist)
Abe Peck (editor)
Jim Roslof (contributor)
Paul Zmiewski (contributor)
Skip Williamson (contributor)
Jay Lynch (contributor)
Peter Solt (contributor)
Marshall Rosenthal (contributor)
Eliot Wald (contributor)