Here - (Pantheon Graphic Library) by Richard McGuire (Hardcover)
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<p/><br></br><p><b> About the Book </b></p></br></br>"Richard McGuire's Here is the story of a corner of a room and the events that happened in that space while moving forward and backward in time. The book experiments with formal properties of comics, using multiple panels to convey the different moments in time. Hundreds of thousands of years become interwoven. A dinosaur from 100,000,000 BCE lumbers by, while a child is playing with a plastic toy that resembles the same dinosaur in the year 1999. Conversations appear to be happening between two people who are centuries apart. Someone asking, "Anyone seen my car keys?" can be "answered" by someone at a future archeology dig. Cycles of glaciers transform into marshes, then into forests, then into farmland. A city develops and grows into a suburban sprawl. Future climate changes cause the land to submerge, if only temporarily, for the long view reveals the transient nature of all things. Meanwhile, the attention is focused on the most ordinary moments and appreciating them as the most transcendent"--<p/><br></br><p><b> Book Synopsis </b></p></br></br>From one of the great comic innovators, the long-awaited fulfillment of a pioneering comic vision. Richard McGuire's <i>Here</i> 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. <p/>(With full-color illustrations throughout.)<p/><br></br><p><b> Review Quotes </b></p></br></br><br><b><b>**A <i>New York Times</i> Notable Book of 2015**</b> <p/><b>Luc Sante, <i>The New York Times Book Review</i></b><br></b>"Brilliant and revolutionary.... 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." <b> <p/>Chris Ware, <i>The Guardian</i><br></b>"A book like this comes along once a decade, if not a century.... I guarantee that you'll remember exactly where you are, or were, when you first read it." <p/><b>Jennifer Schuessler, </b><i><b> The New York Times<br></b></i>"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." <p/><b>Etelka Lehoczky, npr.com<br></b>"The magic of Here is that somehow, alchemically, this sparse little exercise begins to yank on your emotions. As your eye lurches around the page, as you flip back and forth between pages, an irresistible sentiment swells. Rare among conceptual works, Here manages to tug your heart even as it undercuts your comfortable role of reader.... Meanwhile, though, the past and present humans continue their tender little lives. Telling stories, playing, making love -- what will be their fate? That's just one of the countless questions Here leaves unanswered. Even so, it's deeply satisfying. Kind of like a story that never ends." <p/><b>Marnie Kingsley, <i>San Antonio Current</i><br></b>"Imaginative and ingenious, Here transcends the canon of traditional graphic novels. McGuire discusses the inconsistencies of memory, a central theme of Speigelman's Maus series. He readapts the labyrinthine quality of Alison Bechel's Fun Home and focuses on the small moments of everyday experience, similar to parts of Craig Thompson' autobiographical graphic novel Blankets. However, Here retains almost no qualities of a novel: It is non-linear, there are no distinct characters, apart from the space, and there is no plot. Despite these seemingly large hurdles, McGuire produces a reading experience that is emotional, thought-provoking and interactive.... A brisk and brilliant read, Here combines genres and styles in a meditation on impermanence and the processes of memory."<br><i><br><b>Financial Times</b></i><br>"McGuire is able to wring a surprising array of emotions from simple lines and blocks of muted colour interspersed with deliberately hackneyed jokes and the uncanny wisdom of the everyday. And the non-chronological arrangement seems faithful to how consciousness really works, the way we shape and reshape the story of ourselves by editing and re-editing highlights from our lives. I found it compelling to shuttle around in time to discover how earlier events informed later ones. Midway through the book one character says to another: 'Life has a flair for rhyming events.' Clearly, McGuire does too." <p/><b>Straight.com<br></b>"Even as the ground beneath your feet falls away, McGuire creates poetry out of the echoes that's both playful and moving." <p/><b><i>Minneapolis Star Tribune</i><br></b>"For the long-awaited book-length 'Here, ' McGuire adds lavish color and some plot, but he preserves the captivating, uncanny sense of love, anger and tragedy flying across the centuries while staying in one place."<br><i><br></i><b>Dominicumile.com<br></b><i>"</i>A new, full-color graphic novel version of Here is stunning. Over more than three hundred pages, McGuire revisits and rebuilds his original strip with flashy interiors set in vivid pastels, and landscape sequences fleshed-out in moody watercolors, computer software-built textures, and sketchy pencil lines..... memorable and executed wonderfully" <p/><b>Patrick Lohier, Boingboing.net<br></b>"I soon found myself immersed and often moved. Here has the surprising depth as a magician's top hat. The combination of the surreal and the nostalgic are mesmerizing. The book is an ingenious epic of time and space, and I think readers everywhere, and of many ages, will find it delightful." <p/><b>Publishers Weekly (starred review)</b><br>"Expanding on an influential piece that first appeared in <i>Raw </i>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.... The flat, hard lines produce art that looks like an approximation of Edward Hopper's clean bright paintings, created on an outdated computer program. McGuire threads miniplots and knowing references through his hopscotch narrative, building up a head of steam that's almost overwhelmingly poignant. His masterful sense of time and the power of the mundane makes this feel like the graphic novel equivalent of Terrence Malick's <i>The Tree of Life</i>."<br><b> <br><i>Kirkus Reviews </i>(starred review)</b><br>"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." <p/><b>Booklist (starred review)</b><br>"McGuire's quiet artwork in a subdued full-color palette reveals nuanced gestures beautifully, sometimes with precise lines, others in sketchy sepia tones, all of which emphasize the passage of time. The concept is stunningly simple, and in laying bare the universality of existence--its beauty, ugliness, and mundanity--it is utterly moving."<br><p/><br></br><p><b> About the Author </b></p></br></br><p><b>Richard McGuire</b> is a regular contributor to <i>The New Yorker.</i> His work has appeared in <i>The New York Times, McSweeney's, Le Monde, </i> and <i>Libération.</i> He has written and directed for two omnibus feature films: <i>Loulou et Autre Loups</i> (Loulou and Other Wolves, 2003) and <i>Peur(s) du Noir</i> (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 <i>Here, </i>which appeared in 1989 in <i>Raw </i>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.</p>
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