"Rory Hayes was a self-taught dynamo of the underground comics revolution. Lauded by such cartoonists as R. Crumb and Bill Griffith, he emerged as comics’ most notorious modern primitive, drawing horror comics in a genuinely disturbing and hallucinatory way. He has influenced a generation of cartoonists from those who appeared in the seminal RAW to the Fort Thunder collective.

Where Demented Wented is the first retrospective of Hayes’ career and features the best of his underground comics as well as paintings, covers, and artifacts rarely seen by human eyes. It also serves as a biography and critique with a memoir of growing up with him by his brother, the illustrator Geoffrey Hayes, a biographical essay by Edward Pouncey, as well as a rare interview with Rory Hayes himself.