Movies, schmoovies. If you want to get all jacked up on craziness, undiluted and straight from the source, then you need art. Art! It's just some weirdo locked up in a room with his pencils and all they want to do is jab that pencil in your eyes. The premiere eye-jabber of all time is Kazuo Umezu, whose manga have been adapted into movies many times (AKANBO SHOJO, LEFT HAND OF GOD RIGHT HAND OF THE DEVIL, DRIFTING CLASSROOM) but never have the movies been able to capture the sheer, shuddering insanity of his manga, such as Drifting Classroom, which makes Lord of the Flies read like Dick and Jane.

The folks over at Same Hat! Same Hat! have been pimping the works of the psychologically unsanitary Shintaro Kago for a while now, resulting in one of Kago's lip-rippers appearing on the cover of Vice magazine where it will hopefully make the fashionably hip children soil their American Apparel.

Same Hat! has scanlations of several of Kago's short, brain battering manga that look something like this:

There's Abstraction and Blow-up to get you started. Also, if you really want to feel your eyes rolling down your cheeks then try Wanted: Cheap Manga's scanlation of the primitivist Human Clock by Tokunan Seiichiro which was written in the 60's and is exactly the kind of thing you'd expect an office building janitor to write immediately before they dug up his shack and found fifteen castrated schoolboys.

North Korea has tried to do crazy manhwa before, but this is about as close as they get:

You can go here for a complete scan and translation. The DPRK may have dropped the ball in the "freedom of expression for lunatics" sweepstakes but just over the border, China knows crazy. Even its signs are crazy.

But no one is crazier that Hong Kong manhua artists. These guys have been putting together comics with covers like this for years:

Kung Fu Fridays even links to a 1973 Esquire article that contains a translation of Hong Kong manhua, which is so insanely violent that it cannot be reproduced here. But decades later, in 2008, Hong Kong illustrators and artists are still reaching for the crazy stick when it comes to illustrating crimes and natural disasters for the local papers, including this drawing done for Apple Daily to illustrate a story about a bus fire in Shanghai.

I like to call it, "Don't take the bus."