Hooked on Comix - Volume 1 - Life On The Cutting Edge Of An All-American Artform
1994-07-08
Hooked on Comix - Volume 1 - Life On The Cutting Edge Of An All-American Artform
Overview: "... It's heartening to see so much talent and dedication at work in the under-appreciated medium of personal, as opposed to corporate, comics. I also enjoyed watching so many introverts (I oughta know) squirming in front of the camera, valiantly trying to explain the unexplainable." - Bill Griffith, creator of Zippy the Pinhead
Overview: 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.