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It remained in print until 1973, and was originally under the general editorship of Richard Neville and later also Jim Anderson and Felix Dennis. Martin Sharp was initially responsible for art and graphic design. Individual issues of Oz were created by specific groups of people, including women's rights campaigners and lesbian and gay people. The trial arose after the \"Schoolkids Issue\" (no.28) which was assembled by under-18s. The editors were charged with obscenity and conspiring to 'debauch and corrupt the morals of young children'. Although cleared of the corruption charge they were found guilty under the Obscene Publications Act. In August 1971, having been refused bail and kept in prison for 7 days, the three editors received fines and prison sentences. Supporters of Oz and anti-censorship campaigners protested strongly against these sentences, which were viewed as vindictive and evidence of a growing climate of government repression. The Friends of Oz campaign group was formed and a publicity campaign launched in support of the editors. A range of items including posters, flyers and stickers, were produced for campaign supporters and to raise public awareness, particularly among the press. The campaign achieved its desired result, and the initial verdict was overturned at appeal.\n\nThe design on this shirt references one of the most notorious pages in Issue 28, where 15-year old Vivian Berger (1955-2022) put together a collage image that pasted the head of Rupert Bear onto that of the male in a Robert Crumb sex comic-strip, and wrote accompanying text in the form of a sexually explicit parody of the rhyming couplets used in Rupert Bear comics. This particular strip was treated as a key piece of evidence in the trial and heavily discussed. The Rupert-headed character became one of the symbols of the campaigners. 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