Here -- Richard McGuire, Hardcover

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.

In Here McGuire has introduced a third dimension to the flat page. He can poke holes in the space-time continuum simply by imposing frames that act as trans­temporal windows into the larger frame that stands for the provisional now. Here is the ­comic-book equivalent of a scientific breakthrough. It is also a lovely evocation of the spirit of place, a family drama under the gaze of eternity and a ghost story in which all of us are enlisted to haunt and be haunted in turn." --The New York Times Book Review

With full-color illustrations throughout

Author: Richard McGuire
Publisher: Pantheon Books
Published: 12/09/2014
Pages: 304
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 1.90lbs
Size: 9.70h x 6.60w x 1.20d
ISBN: 9780375406508

Review Citation(s):
Publishers Weekly 10/13/2014
Kirkus Reviews 11/01/2014
Booklist 12/15/2014 pg. 36
Booklist Editors Choice/Adult 01/01/2015 pg. 11
New York Times Book Review 10/16/2015 pg. 12
New York Times Book Review 10/25/2015 pg. 30
NY Times Notable Bks of Year 12/06/2015 pg. 26

About the Author

Richard McGuire is a regular contributor to The New Yorker. His work has appeared in The New York Times, McSweeney's, Le Monde, and Libération. He has written and directed for two omnibus feature films: Loulou et Autre Loups (Loulou and Other Wolves, 2003) and Peur(s) du Noir (Fear[s] of the Dark, 2007). He has also designed and manufactured his own line of toys, and he is the founder and bass player of the band Liquid Liquid. The six-page comic Here, which appeared in 1989 in Raw magazine, volume 2, number 1, was immediately recognized as a transformative work that would expand the possibilities of the comic medium. Its influence continues to be felt twenty-five years after its publication.