Where Demented Wented: The Art and Comics of Rory Hayes

A single-issue monograph from Fantagraphics, Where Demented Wented collects the raw, visionary underground comix work of Rory Hayes, whose brief but intense career in the 1970s produced a uniquely unsettling body of work. Edited and contextualized by fellow cartoonist Bill Griffith, the volume gathers Hayes's comics, drawings, and paintings, offering a comprehensive look at an artist whose primal, childlike linework and unflinching subject matter made him a cult figure of the underground scene. This collection serves as an essential document of a singular talent whose influence continues to be felt in the realms of outsider art and alternative comics.