Here’s an awesome find from artist John Coulthart (who I relink quite a bit because his blog is, in my opinion, one of the great sources of interesting original content on the web. He finds the kind of stuff that you would prolapse even if you saw in a bizarro, dusty boutique used book store, you know, those things we had before the Interwebs that don’t exist anymore. His blog is kind of like finding a first edition of the Necronomicon 3-4 times a week.)

Here he writes about Jim Leon, who drew bizarre psychosexual wonderlands for Oz magazine in the 60s:

This, dear friends, is what the art of the fantastic could give us but rarely does, something which combines the metaphysical intensity of the Symbolists with a post-Freudian sensibility to create what Philip José Farmer once called “the pornography of the weird”. Jim Leon was a British artist whose work gained prominence via the underground magazines of the 1960s, especially Oz, although he was never really a psychedelic artist as such. Many of his earliest paintings show the influence of the Pop artists, it was only later in the decade that a distinctly original and surreal imagination came to the fore. Oz was always pretty scurrilous and had no qualms about challenging the authorities with bizarre sexual imagery which other magazines would never dare to print. Leon and other artists were fortunate to have such a public forum for outré work, a few years earlier or later and they might not have found an outlet at all.

(Behold this utter glory here.)

(John Coulthart: The Haunter of the Dark: And Other Grotesque Visions)