Nick Hayes is the author of The Rime of the Modern Mariner, an updating of Coleridge's famous poem, and the visual biography Woody Guthrie and the Dust Bowl Ballads, both of which are among the most highly regarded of recent British long-form comics. He has also published two collections of his short comics, Lovely Grey Day and 11 Folk Songs. He is the founding editor of Meat magazine, a periodical showcasing new writing, comics and illustration and has won two Guardian Media awards.
Holds within its pages a tremendous sense of time and place... Hayes has set out on an ambitious path and creates a vivid and unforgiving picture. * Design Week * An inventive and expansive biography worthy of its subject. * Big Issue * A step up [for Hayes] in ambition and execution... An inventive and expansive biography worthy of its subject. -- Doug Johnstone * Big Issue * In a handsome square format, with open spreads as wide as the land itself, Hayes captures the man and the times in his lyrical writing and brush artwork. * Independent * This is a passionate picture of Guthrie and his times. -- James Smart * Guardian *