Cartoons

Martin Sharp

This compilation of Martin Sharp’s published cartoons and drawings was printed in 1966, the year he left Australia for London. It contains reproductions of many of Sharp’s most sardonic works penned for newspapers and journals.

On April Fool’s Day 1963, the first issue of Oz appeared, edited by Richard Neville, Richard Walsh and Martin Sharp and filled with cartoons by Sharp, Garry Shead, Mick Glasheen and Peter Kingston. The following year, the editors were charged under obscenity laws, found guilty under the Obscene and Indecent Publications Act, and sentenced to jail terms with hard labour. Fortunately for the defendants, this decision was quashed on appeal.