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Type of bind: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 741
EAN num: 9781560979234
ISBN number: 1560979232
Label: Fantagraphics Books
Manufacturer: Fantagraphics Books
Quantity: 1
Page Count: 144
Printing Date: August 18, 2008
Publishing house: Fantagraphics Books
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The first-ever collection by the underground's most notorious modern primitive.
The controversial cartoonist Rory Hayes was a self-taught dynamo of the San Francisco 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 halucinatory manner. He has influenced a generation of cartoonists, from RAW to Fort Thunder and back again.
This book, the very 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 Comics and Art 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 Edward Pouncey. Also included is a rare interview with Hayes himself.
'Rory Hayes was the real thing; a genuine 'outsider' artist working alongside his more self-aware compatriots in the heady days of the San Francisco Underground Comix scene of the 1960s and '70s. His work retains its raw, primitive power to this day, teetering precariously between chaos and control, madness and oddly endearing teddy bears.'—Bill Griffith
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I already have some of Rory Hayes' comics in the UG's where they very first appeared, but it's great to get this much dementia in one package. I wish they had re-printed all of BOGEYMAN #1, but that's a small complaint. You feel more like you are reading the work of an insane person here, than with the more professional-looking work of S. Clay Wilson or Crumb, who may be weird, but are clearly putting you on. Weird, funny and disturbing. I looked through this in a bookstore and then ordered a copy from Amazon. Well worth having.
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I did buy this, thinking they'd culled the best of Hayes' material and placed it within a frame work of "what happened" or at least a "why". What you get is a sloppy retrospective of a man people more fondly recollected than for very first hand knowledge of what he produced, which is no bargain. Very little of it has quality, and very little of it seems charming. It is raw, ugly and unrewarding. Honest it might be, but this is not the honesty you wish for, as there seems to be no forgiveness or desire to move through it. If it was therapy for Rory Hayes, fine.
It isn't that I cannot respect a talented primitive. There is just less here than I expected. Basing just on the cover, I thought it would be interesting. It's the cumulative details that you see after you pop open the book to realize that the value you spent and what you get aren't equal.
And the large factor of Rory Hayes dying from drug overdose and drug usage seems to be glossed over, as is the information I gathered years ago, that as he got older, he did less. This is a bunch of drawings from an older disturbed teenager.
If you pick this up in a store, you would put it back. I know I would. Sorry I bought this.
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Wow. I just read this book yesterday and I doubt the effect will ever wear off. Rory Hayes may be one of the most interesting artists I've ever heard of. His speed (among other drugs) addiction had a lot to do with the look and feel of his work, though drugs would later be his downfall. This is what I can say about the book: EC comics-inspired acid trip visuals, disturbing stories and artwork, bears who commit murder and are sometimes victims themselves, an alcoholic old lady who always groans and takes meth, horribly gruesome scenes of bodyparts being chopped off, and other things that Amazon would never allow me to put. It is the work of a strange, pale, skinny, wall-eyed creature who grew up troubled. If I could use one word to describe his work, it would be "outsider". WARNING! This book is definitely NOT for the weak of heart!
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