The longest book EVER. Really cool.

Henry Darger was a recluse and was a little crazy who died as a poor janitor. After he died, while going through his apartment, investigators (or whoever did it) found a handmade artist book, more than 15,000 pages long called "The Story of the Vivian Girls, in What is known as the Realms of the Unreal, of the Glandeco-Angelinnian War Storm, Caused by the Child Slave Rebellion." The book is epic and bizarre with hundreds of water colors (some many feet long requiring the reader to unfold many papers), many graphic and violent but is altogether beautiful. If you are interested there is a pretty good documentary called "The Realms of the Unreal" that is pretty easy to get. Here is a link to a site with some good images from the page and here is the Wikipedia article about Darger that has good resources at the bottom that link to other pictures, etc.