M. C. Escher, Snakes (Woodcut print), 1969.
Reclusive mystery man Henry Darger lived in an apartment for fifty years where he wrote over 15,000 pages of biography and elaborately illustrated fantasy war novels (titled The Story of the Vivian Girls, in What is known as the Realms of the Unreal, of the Glandeco-Angelinian War Storm, Caused by the Child Slave Rebellion). Illustration date unknown.
