Boiled Angels

2019 • 101 minutes

About this movie

The story of the only artist imprisoned by the USA for obscenity. Underground artist Mike Diana is the first, and only, cartoonist to be convicted of artistic obscenity in the USA. Tracing Diana's emergence on the underground adult comic book scene, this alarming doc reveals how Diana crashed against the boundaries of free speech with his graphic portrayals of sex, violence, religion and abuse. A horrifying look at how easily the law can cast aside the first amendment to take down a transgressor of good taste.