This is a page spread from the ape book. The idea was that the creationists and the evolutionists put the ape on trial each trying to prove the other wrong. The ape is an unwilling pawn in argument over evolution. The verses were on the left hand side.

The creationists wanted to prove the ape is a debased human, the evolutionists that he is an evolved ape. In our modern political climate can you guess who might win if the Scopes Monkey trial were held today? I would bet a dollar both ways and break even. At least then I could say that I hadn't lost.

I did a sketch of the monkey dressed in a badly fitting suit with one of those hats like the one in 'Dirty Rotten Scoundrels.' The hitler moustach was a slip of the pencil but when I looked at it I roared with laughter. It seemed like the perfect metaphor for judicial bias to dress the ape like a confirmed idiot, not that such a thing might ever happen in an american courtroom...

Did you know? Dirty Rotten Scoundrels was directed by the great Frank Oz, yes that Frank Oz.