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File: 428256a49c9a552⋯.jpg (538.87 KB, 801x1024, 801:1024, 3642812208_0b70619b70_b.jpg)

 No.982851

BOILED ANGEL, a comic so vile that the creator, Mike Diana, was the first person ever convicted of Artistic Obscenity in the United States back in 1993. Judge Walter Fullerton of Florida sentenced Mike Diana to three years supervised probation, a $3000 fine, 1,248 hours of community service, state-supervised psychiatric evaluation (to be paid out of his own pocket), to take an ethics-in-journalism class, and to submit to unannounced, warrantless searches of his personal papers by the police and deputized probation officers from the Salvation Army, which would allow them to seize any drawings or writings. In July of 1997, a petition for a writ of certiorari was denied by the United States Supreme Court, ending any hope of Mike Diana overturning his conviction.

Truly, it can be said that Boiled Angel and the reaction it inspired was one for the comics history books, but I can't find full scans of any of the eight issues produced. I was hoping that one of my fellow /co/mrades might have something, but if not, then maybe we should consider a board project of finding and scanning whatever issues we can find so that Boiled Angel is preserved for the comics fags of the future.

 No.982856

I remember that. He was legally banned from producing art in the state of California.

Seriously, he could have been jailed for a phone pad doodle.


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 No.982860

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>>982859

>$125

>+$10 shipping


 No.982864

I can get behind him being a martyr for artist rights, but his work is honestly pretty mediocre.

He never got any better after Boiled Angel and did the exact same style/humour for 20 years because people wanted to see what was so shocking that he was given a court order never to draw again.

His political stances are fairly interesting; it's mostly just 3rd position but I'm more interested in how he got to that point from his upbringing.

Found a few torrents of his work on a private tracker, but not Boiled Angel, and I can't see his work in my unsorted comics folder, but I know I have it here somewhere. I'll upload something when I wake up tomorrow.


 No.983199

>>982864

>I'll upload something when I wake up tomorrow.

Thank you. Somehow, I have never heard about it before and am curious to see if it is really as obscene as it is made out to be. In case of most banned and controversial media, it was not nearly as bad as media and special groups tend to make it out to be.


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 No.983557

>>983243

Just reprints. Does contain some early stuff from Boiled Angel if you're curious.


 No.983632

As fucked up as this book must be to even get the attention it did, I don't understand how anyone can be legally prevented from producing media when the very first amendment of the Constitution guarantees that Congress can't make any laws to abridge speech or press freedom.


 No.983676

>>983632

His work was found on the body of a school shooter, so the Feds buster down his door and tried to connect him to it. After that, the local cops started harassing Mike until they managed to get him for obscenity charges, which are laws designed to stop being from subverting moral values, which his work admittedly did.

He was in a super conservative area, so the Judge and Jury had him up against the wall the entire time. Any reasonable Judge would have thrown the case out on the 1st Amendment of 'Murica or on entrapment for what the local cops did.

I believe the fire department also evicted his family on safety grounds and bulldozed it. It was just a bunch of puritans putting their fingers in their ears and pretending Mike caused a massacre and was insane.


 No.983677

File: b7f30f2451d1d2a⋯.jpg (1.6 MB, 900x1247, 900:1247, PeterKuper_ItsObscene-larg….jpg)

>>983676

What the fucking fuck? No, that wasn't what happened at all.


 No.983703

Something similar happened with Frank Thorne's The Devil's Angel #2, except they hung, drew and quartered a comics retailer this time.

I've been looking for scans, but all I can find is #3, which dropped the plot of the first two issues, and the "Tales of The Iron Devil" prequel to focus on the lunacy surrounding the second issue.


 No.983704

>>983677

Should have taken it to the Supreme Court, did the Comic Book Legal Defence Fund exist back then?


 No.983706

>>983704

Yes, he was one of their biggest cases, if not the top one.


 No.983707

>>983677

Jesus Christ, that's a load of fucking horseshit, and a travesty of justice that the law was able to railroad him that bad for drawing a fucking indie comic.


 No.983709

>>983707

It was only four years after Judas Priest were on trial for allegedly making their teenage fans commit suicide by backmasking satanic subliminal messages in their records. They were lucky they had money for a real defence.

It was the Jack Thompson age of litigation.




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