Henry Darger, […] the antisocial janitor whose tremendous body of artistic and literary works was discovered by his landlords after his death in the early 1970s. Darger, who spent his impoverished childhood in convents and a school for the feebleminded, devoted his adult life to the secret production of two massive chronicles of imaginary wars. Both were copiously illustrated with his surrealistic collages, tracings, and paintings of fierce, naked, ambiguously gendered children at war with an evil, child-hating empire of men.