![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Rory Hayes was among the most visionary artists to emerge from the underground comix milieu of the late 1960s and early 1970s. The Dolls Weekly and the Crawlee Things By Rory Hayes Co-published by United Dead Artists and PictureBox Inc. The excavation of comics’ historical past has created a public archive that contains a variety of previously unknown, or barely glimpsed, ephemeral treasures. Today, a dedicated reader could fill several bookshelves with volumes compiled from this thoroughgoing history of comics, and a more casual reader or researcher can easily find the same at a well-stocked library. The cover of United Dead Artists/PictureBox's new Rory Hayes collection But the rise of the graphic novel category over the past decade has yielded a rich vein of previously rare or inaccessible archival material in well-designed, library-ready formats: complete comic strip collections, surveys of mid-century comic book genres, art books dedicated to historical and contemporary artists, and other rare pleasures. Not very long ago, a dedicated comics library might have looked less like a rare books room and more like a semi-coherent junk store, containing a three-dimensional scrapbook of out-of-print books, half-completed reprint series, miscellaneous small press magazines, bound photocopies, and endless clippings. ![]()
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