Where Demented Wented: The Art and Comics of Rory Hayes

The controversial cartoonist Rory Hayes was a self-taught dynamo of the underground comics revolution. Attracting equal parts derision and praise (the latter from the likes of R. Crumb and Bill Griffith), Hayes emerged as comics' great primitive, drawing horror comics in a genuinely horrifying and hallucinatory manner (some have called him the Fletcher Hanks of the underground). He has influenced a generation of cartoonists, from RAW to Fort Thunder and back again.

This book, the first retrospective of Hayes' career ever published, features the best of his underground comics output alongside paintings, covers, and artifacts rarely seen by human eyes — as well as astounding, previously unprinted comics from his teenage years and movie posters for his numerous homemade films. The Art and Comix of Rory Hayes also serves as a biography and critique with a memoir of growing up with Rory by his brother, the illustrator Geoffrey Hayes, and a career-spanning essay by Edwin Pouncey (a.k.a. Savage Pencil). Also included is a rare interview with Hayes himself.

"Rory Hayes was the real thing; a genuine 'outsider' artist. His work retains its raw, primitive power to this day, teetering precariously between chaos and control, madness and oddly endearing teddy bears." -- Bill Griffith

"A great American primitive." -- R. Crumb

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[Gurneyface]

@verrywellhung Try reading the description to see why this was linked to Crumb.

"A great American primitive." -- R. Crumb

[puppetsmetropolis]

Rory Hayes? One of the best! and that's just how it is.

[intergalacticponcho]

fuck off

[verrywellhung]

this is ugly bullshit. Why did you link this to crumb. It is fucking ugly compared to crumb shit. dumb ass.

[idntexst]

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[idntexst]

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[allaboutdmagic]

I bought a copy last September in Gosh! comics...well worth it! Some very strange, bizarre and funny pieces of work.

[AmazingTemple]

Hey, this is great. I was definitely going to buy the book, but I was wishing I could leaf thru it.... and here it is!

I came to YouTube hoping that some of Hayes' 8mm films had been posted. Maybe someday.........

[LullabyPie]

I just did that tonight, except far less demonstratively and slower so I could read the stuff.