Here (McGuire)

Here 
Richard McGuire, 2014
Knopf Doubleday
304 pp.
ISBN-13: 9780375406508


Summary
From one of the great comic innovators, the long-awaited fulfillment of a pioneering comic vision.

Richard McGuire’s Here is the story of a corner of a room and of the events that have occurred in that space over the course of hundreds of thousands of years. With full-color illustrations throughout. (From the publisher.)

Author Bio
• Birth—1957
• Where—New Jersey, USA
• Education—N/A
• Currently—lives in New York City, New York


Richard McGuire is an illustrator, graphic designer, comic book artist, animator, children's book author, musician and toy designer. His illustrations have been published in the New York Times, The New Yorker, Le Monde, and other publications. He is a founding member and bassist for the band Liquid Liquid. His bass line from the song Cavern is considered one of the most sampled bass lines of all time.

His short story "Here" is perhaps the most lauded comic book story from recent decades. An updated book-length version of Here, along with a digital version, was published in 2014. (Adapted from the publisher.)

Book Reviews
Getting from here to there can be hard enough. But it has taken Richard McGuire 25 years to do something even more complicated: get form here to here….the book promises to leapfrog immediately to the front ranks of the graphic-novel genre.
Schuessler Jennifer - New York Times


(Starred review.) Expanding on an influential piece that first appeared in Raw in 1989, McGuire, best known for his illustrated children’s books, explores a single patch of land (apparently in Perth Amboy, N.J.) over the course of millions of years.... [A] masterful sense of time and...power of the mundane....
Publishers Weekly


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Library Journal


(Starred review.) Later spreads flash with terrible and ancient supremacy, impending cataclysm, and distant, verdant renaissance, then slow to inevitable, irresistible conclusion. The muted colors and soft pencils further blur individual moments into a rich, eons-spanning whole. A gorgeous symphony.”
Kirkus Reviews

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