OD’D ON O.J. edited by Jerry...

OD’D ON O.J. edited by Jerry Robinson and Jens Robinson (Universe/St . Martin’s Press: $7.99; 96 pp., paperback original). From downtown Los Angeles to Nigeria, Chile, Israel and South Africa, the O.J. Simpson trial exerts a perverse fascination, receiving more coverage than other, more significant “trials of the century”--Watergate, Nuremberg, Scopes, Sacco-Vanzetti. In this anthology, some of world’s best political cartoonists poke fun at the excesses of what should be a deadly serious legal battle. In one telling cartoon, Paul Conrad depicts the jury finding the news media “guilty as charged.”