Mike diana obscenity laws

New documentary closes saga of Florida's 'obscene' ...

Michael “Mike” Diana seems like an unlikely movie star. He's got a sallow face and long, stringy hair. He's so soft-spoken he can be hard to ...

In 1994, independent comic book creator Mike Diana became the first person in the United States convicted of obscenity, forbidden to even ...

Mike Diana was jailed in 1994. A jury took just 90 minutes to find him guilty of obscenity following a week-long trial in March of that ...

... law (the FBI showing up at his door with BOILED ANGEL #6, suspecting him of the Gainesville student murders; his subsequent obscenity trials). In general ...

Law, Lesbian, Literature ... June 4, 1996: a ruling by Largo, FL Judge Douglas Baird declared Mike Diana's zines, Boiled Angel #7 and #ATE obscene ...

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... obscenity. His run-ins with the law have seemed to have the opposite of the intended effect; since first arriving on the scene in the 1990s ...

Mike Diana started drawing his own comics in 1987 while he was still in high ... The obscenity law itself is how they get around the First Amendment. So I ...

Diana, with the eyes of the law on him, continued to publish his ... Backers of The Trial Of Mike Diana will receive such rewards as ...

Michael Christopher "Mike" Diana (born 1969) is an underground cartoonist who became the first artist ever to receive a criminal conviction for obscenity in the ...

Mike Diana was a kid from New York City, raised in Florida, who liked ... Seen in its time as a test case for obscenity law, the Diana trial ...

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His work, which is largely self-published, deals with themes including sexuality, violence, and religion. He is the first person to receive a criminal ...

Largo, Florida: Mike Diana, a controversial comic artist, was convicted in March of 1994 for violating Florida's obscenity laws. Mr. Diana ...

Underground comix of the 1960s and 70s struggled with obscenity laws. ... In the early 90s, Mike Diana became the first and only US artist jailed ...

Obscenity laws have a long legal history that dates back hundreds of years ... In 1993, when Mike Diana went to court, he faced The Miller Test.

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In 1992, Princess Diana was indicted for obscenity under Florida law after sending copies of her work to an undercover police officer. A jury found him ...

... Mike Diana became the first person convicted of artistic obscenity in America. It was for the publication of his comic, Boiled Angel, which ...

Mike Diana, in 1994, was the first person in the U.S. to be charged with ... This case intrigued him and began to influence his artwork, which got into the Law ...

Mike Diana is not everyone's cup of tea. Creator/artist of a comic book 'zine called Boiled Angel, he was described in a 1994 Mother Jones ...

American underground cartoonist Mike Diana (Michael Christopher Diana, born 1969 ... obscenity. His work, which is largely self-published, deals with themes ...

'Boiled Angels: The Trial of Mike Diana' Review

Frank Henenlotter's 'Boiled Angels' introduces Mike Diana, the only cartoonist in America to have been convicted of obscenity. ... law-school ...

He is the first person to receive a criminal conviction in the United States for artistic obscenity for his comic Boiled Angel. Mike Diana. Diana at the Big ...

... laws: (1) There should be laws against the distribution of pornography ... Obscenity, pamphlet, republished in 1998, Michael Herbert (editor), D. H. Lawrence ...

Tells the story of underground cartoonist Mike Diana, who was the first person in the United States to be convicted of artistic obscenity.

Is Mike Diana obscene? You decide ... This is the paradox of obscenity laws today — what the court case ...