He was overweight, had suffered cardiac damage from sleep apnea, and had been hospitalized more than once. Hayes suffered from health problems which hampered his ability to create comics. He engaged in an ongoing mock "feud" with fellow comics creator Brian Bendis in the letters pages of their books. His work has been collected in Twelve Poison Elves paperbacks. In 1995 he signed a "lifetime contract" assigning the rights to the series to Sirius Entertainment, where he produced another 79 issues and a color special, the last of which was published in September 2004. During this period, he was a prominent example of creators distributing their black and white comics to the direct market. He changed the series title to Poison Elves with #8, and continued through #20. Hayes began self-publishing I, Lusiphur under the Mulehide Graphics imprint in 1991. Lawrence Andrew "Drew" Hayes (J– March 21, 2007) was a writer and graphic artist who is best known as the creator of the long-running independent comic book series Poison Elves.
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