RIP

Christopher Owens 🔖 Being the first American artist to be convicted of obscenity is quite a claim. And it’s a claim that belongs to Mike Diana. A notorious figure in the underground comix scene (which had already given us Robert Crumb, S. Clay Wilson, Aline Kominsky-Crumb and An Phoblacht’s own Cormac), Diana took the underground’s obsession with taboo breaking and pushed the comix medium into