Emma Rendel

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Harsh Patel

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MIKE DIANA

"In 1994, underground cartoonist Mike Diana was thrown in jail for 4 days without bail on obscenity charges, for publishing, advertising, and selling his zine BOILED ANGEL. Mike was on probation for 3 years, terms included fines of $3000, no contact with minors, 1280 hours of community service, maintain full time employment, and at his expense, see a psychiatrist and take journalism courses at his own expense; AND no drawing for his own personal use... his home was subject to unannounced searches by local police to make sure he was complying.
On June 4, 1996, a ruling issued by Largo, Florida, Circuit Judge Douglas Baird declared Mike Diana's zines, Boiled Angel #7 and #ATE as obscene. The judge emphasized that he personally found Diana's comics "patently offensive." and stated, "The evident goal of the appellant's publication is to portray shocking and graphic pictures of sexual conduct so it will be noticed. If the message is about victimization and that horrible things are happening in our society, as the appellant alleges, the appellant SHOULD HAVE created a vehicle to send his message that was not obscene." Mike Diana was served with another 2 years of probation, including $2000 in fines, and the same probationary terms."
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Zine Class!?!

'Zine Making for Design: An Independent Publishing Primer' was a course taught at Pratt Institute in the fall of 2006. This website is the portfolio for the final class project, which required the students to create a 32 page zine. As stated in the syllabus, '... the most important functions of this project are to a) create a piece that is creatively and thematically significant and ultimately an important addition to their portfolio, and b)to explore the compositional possibilities, materials and processes used in printing the zine."
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