Mike Diana

Boiled Angels: The Trial of Mike Diana

Frank Henenlotter

Mike Diana, Neil Gaiman

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.

Blood Brothers

Mike Diana

Mike Diana

In 1986 as a teen, Mike Diana bought a video camera and using his younger brother and sister as actors made a gore film inspired by the horror videos he was a fan of...

Les Religions Sauvages

Bada Ichiba Daisuke, Melted Men

Thirty artists from eleven countries have created a visual trip to hell that was inspired by the devotion pictures of the La Major cathedral in Marseille. This absurd mix of styles is close to the Art Brut. The ugly, blasphemous and obscene work stresses out the often anarchic side of the animation film and is easily incorporated into the complete works of the artists collective Le Dernier Cri, which was founded in 1993 in Marseille.

Baked Baby Jesus

Mike Diana

Underground artsploitation object from Mike Diana begins with a man giving birth to the titular object and gets stranger from there.