Boiled Angels: The Trial of Mike Diana

7.8 NR1 hour 45 mins

Florida, 1994. Artist Mike Diana is convicted on an obscenity charge in the wake of an undercover police officer purchasing his limited edition zine Boiled Angel. Here is the very unusual story of what led to this First Amendment debacle happening for the first time in the United States.

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freedom of speech comic book trial art comic book artist obscenity zines free speech first amendment zine