FREE SO THATS WHERE THE DEMENTED WENTED: THE COMICS AND ART OF RORY HAYES PDF Daniel Nadel,Glenn Bray | 144 pages | 25 Sep 2008 | Fantagraphics | 9781560979234 | English | Seattle, United States Where Demented Wented: The Art and Comics of Rory Hayes by Rory Hayes What a great web site, and I love that you love Rory Hayes. I always wanted to know more about this man, like I couldn't understand the dichotomy of his coming from a tight loving family or so it is said in the press releases and then his being such a major speed freak. Most speed freaks I used to know had troubled backgrounds. Anyway, I just wondered, and So Thats Where the Demented Wented: The Comics and Art of Rory Hayes always liked his artwork. Speed and that bay are old friends. I saw his brother speak about Rory and they were very focused even as kids about drawing So Thats Where the Demented Wented: The Comics and Art of Rory Hayes sci-fi horror, and the 70's were just kind of off the hook about drugs, I remember kids in my middle class neighborhood being all into PCP and it was kind of normal Much more middle class than you would think. I mentor students in art now and a lot of them are very anti-drug. Times change I suppose. I love how this guy just doesn't fit any real genre. Its kind of outsider, but "in". I think you have to approach it from his motivation. I guess the word is idiosyncratic. Like a turrets more than a practice, I think thats a good place for art to begin from, meh who knows? Post a Comment. From Philipsburg, Sint Maarten. Pages Home. Around p. Now the name Rory Hayes was unfamiliar to us, but when we did a Google image search, we quickly recognized that we had seen his work back in the s and even remembered specific comics, particularly "Bogeyman. Attracting equal parts derision and praise the latter from the likes of R. We'd never seen the store so crowded and since the door was closed and a white-bearded man in black was blocking the entrance, we assumed at first that it was filled to capacity and were about to go home when the man moved and we realized he was only inadvertently standing in our way. When we told him this, he was amused that we took him for a bouncer. Well, the store almost needed one. We wedged ourselves into a small spot by the store's whimsical window display and a rack of little comics and found ourselves next to the barrel of cold cans of Budweiser. Is that good beer? We are not just teetotalers; we are totally ignorant. We just know that hipsters like PBR, right? A large, well-groomed black dog was standing on his hind legs nearby and shaking hands with people, and we wondered if he would be on the evening's panel. As it turned out, no. Savage Pencil. Also included is a rare interview with Hayes himself. The panel discussion - really, reminiscences of a brother and an old friend prompted by a moderator who knew when to probe and when to hold back - lasted maybe an hour, but we don't think anyone's attention flagged. We could go on and on, based on our notes, but probably the best introduction to Rory Hayes you can get is through the book, available at Desert Island. Rory was behind the counter for many years, part of the scene but apart from it. Everyone smoked marijuana, of course, but Rory's speed habit clearly fueled his creativity, eventually choked it, and led to his early death. But he's achieved the kind of influence only true originals can manage: Rory's work has affected people who aren't even aware of who he was. Geoffrey Hayes said his brother was always drawing, as he was, from boyhood in L. At a very young age, they created wordless books and then films, featuring their stuffed animals and dolls, but not in a typical way: they were darker tales of horror, SF, detective stories. Rory So Thats Where the Demented Wented: The Comics and Art of Rory Hayes a "Dolls Weekly" newspaper whose only copy Geoffrey pretended to buy, and even then Rory's work has an "underground" feel. The two brothers would go on very different paths, Geoffrey as a more conventional if offbeat children's book author in New York, and Rory heading for San Francisco if not with flowers in his hair, then with interesting visions in his head. Bill Griffith said that Rory wasn't really aware that he was actually a folk artist; comparing Rory to Henri Rousseau, who believed he was painting in a classical tradition when in such work as "The Sleeping Gypsy" he was doing pioneering folk art, Griffith noted that Rory was never a "hippie" in the way he and the others were in their dress, hairstyles, and attitudes. As if he was "possessed by a monster," Rory produced his work naturally, much of it utterly inaccessible in its time except for those fellow artists and a few others, like the eccentric wealthy comics collector who eventually paid Rory for original work. Bill Griffith told a story about Rory turning up bleeding and disheveled at his SF apartment while his girlfriend and Aileen Kominsky Crumb were present, and asking only for a glass of milk. At a comics conference at the University of Florida insert obligatory law school alum "Go Gators! And in his notebook was a kind of a break down of a movie script — an idea for a movie that he was been trying to. Rory made 8MM movies occasionally, homemade horror films. Rory would show these movies —l ittle evening entertainments. And he would narrate them, but he would shift So Thats Where the Demented Wented: The Comics and Art of Rory Hayes third-person narrative to first-person whenever he got to the violent scenes. Like he would be saying things like, "The creature comes into the room, the woman is lying prone So Thats Where the Demented Wented: The Comics and Art of Rory Hayes her back. The creature gets closer, and then I stab her. It was pretty intense. Bill Griffith said that few seemed to "get" Rory, but that he, Crumb, Spiegelman and others definitely did appreciate his "very disturbing work" that others dismissed as crude and naive. Rory's brother Geoffrey said that no matter how possessed Rory was by drugs, the quality of his technique remained strong and his vision came from his gut. It seemed as if the amphetamines actually allowed him to do stuff like obsessively detailed stippling, for example. Rory's output declined as the s wore on and the drugs took their toll; he moved more towards single images than multi-panel strips. There were great questions by Desert Island proprietor Gabriel Fowler and some of the guests that produced fascinating answers from the panelists, and Dan Nadel put Rory Hayes' work in perspective in both its time and today; with the publication of Where Demented Wentedwe expect Rory's influence will only grow. Posted by Richard at AM. Newer Post Older Post Home. Subscribe to: Post Comments Atom. Where Demented Wented : The Art and Comics of Rory Hayes book | rozumidaitoのブ ログ - 楽天ブログ Goodreads helps you keep track of books you want to read. Want to Read saving…. Want to Read Currently Reading Read. Other editions. Enlarge cover. Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Open Preview See a Problem? Details if other :. Thanks for telling us about the problem. So Thats Where the Demented Wented: The Comics and Art of Rory Hayes to Book Page. Dan Nadel Editor. Glenn Bray Editor. 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 GriffithHayes emerged as comics' great primitive, drawing horror comics in a genuinely horrifying and halucinatory manner. He has influenced a generation of cartoon The controversial cartoonist Rory Hayes was a self-taught dynamo of the San Francisco underground comics revolution. 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 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. His work retains its raw, primitive power to this day, teetering precariously between chaos and control, madness and oddly endearing teddy bears. Get A Copy. Paperbackpages. Published August 1st by Fantagraphics Books first published July 31st More Details Original Title. Other Editions 2. Friend Reviews. To see what your friends thought of this book, please sign up. To ask other readers questions about Where Demented Wentedplease sign up. Be the first to ask a question about Where Demented Wented. Lists with This Book. Community Reviews. Showing Average rating 3. Rating details. Sort order. Feb 27, Dominick rated it liked it Shelves: comicsart. Compact collection of Hayes's work, including Bill Griffiths's story on him and a biographical essay by his brother.