| Description | In the first of three snapshots, Richard Neville (see below) is thumbing his nose at Lady Justice, who stands blindfold with a sword in one hand and a pair of scales in the other. In the next, she has dropped the sword and scales and is removing her blindfold; Neville looks somewhat alarmed. In the final snapshot Lady Justice looks like a harridan; she has used her blindfold to gag Neville and with her sword is about to chop off his long hair.
At the bottom of the cartoon is a note saying "OZ Trial". [OZ was an underground alternative magazine. First published in Sydney, Australia, in 1963, a second version appeared in London, England from 1967 and is better known. The original Australian OZ took the form of a satirical magazine published between 1963 and 1969, while the British incarnation was a "psychedelic hippy" magazine which appeared from 1967 to 1973. Strongly identified as part of the underground press, it was the subject of two celebrated obscenity trials, one in Australia in 1964 and the other in the United Kingdom in 1971. On both occasions the magazine's editors were acquitted on appeal after initially being found guilty and sentenced to harsh jail terms. The central editor throughout the magazine's life in both Australia and Britain was Richard Neville. Co-editors of the Sydney version were Richard Walsh and Martin Sharp. Co-editors of the London version were Jim Anderson and, later, Felix Dennis - source: Wikipedia] |