Introducing Mr. Diana 1996
by Peter Cramer and Jack Waters 27 min.

Welcome Michael Diana, illustrator and comic book artist, to New York City. Facing obscenity charges in Florida, he has already done jail time there for his shocking, outrageously funny pictorial observations. In his art he exposes the hypocrisy of common atrocities committed in the name of Traditional Values: those of Family, Church, and Nation. Ideas that he gets straight from the evening news. Mike's soft spoken, gentle character is in sharp contrast to the harsh images of bloody sexuality he creates. His persona combines the innocence of Melvile's Billy Budd with the lusty ingenuousness of Voltaire's Candide. Partake in our lust as we voyeuristically survey his buff surfer physique, poised amidst the jumble of severed limbs, human genitalia and visceral secretions of his own creation.