<P> The Voice's competitors in New York City include New York Observer and Time Out New York . In 1996, after decades of carrying a cover price, the Voice switched from a paid weekly to a free, alternative weekly . The Voice website was a recipient of the National Press Foundation's Online Journalism Award in 2001 and the Editor & Publisher EPpy Award for Best Overall U.S. Newspaper Online Service--Weekly, Community, Alternative & Free in 2003 . </P> <P> The film section writers and editors also produce a weekly Voice Film Club podcast . </P> <P> The Voice has published columns and works by many well - known writers, including Ezra Pound, Henry Miller, Barbara Garson, Katherine Anne Porter, staff writer and author M.S. Cone, James Baldwin, E.E. Cummings, Nat Hentoff, staff writer and author Ted Hoagland, William Bastone of thesmokinggun.com, Colson Whitehead, Nelson George, Greg Tate, Barry Cooper, Peter Noel, Tom Stoppard, Lorraine Hansberry, Lester Bangs, Catholic activist and author Thomas E. Byers, Allen Ginsberg and Joshua Clover . Former editors have included Clay Felker and Tom Morgan . </P> <P> The newspaper has also been a host to underground cartoonists . In addition to mainstay Jules Feiffer, whose cartoon ran for decades in the paper until its cancellation in 1996, well - known cartoonists featured in the paper have included R. Crumb, Matt Groening, Lynda Barry, Stan Mack, Mark Alan Stamaty, Ted Rall, Tom Tomorrow, Ward Sutton, Ruben Bolling and M. Wartella . </P>

What day does the village voice come out