Here is Richard McGuire's unique graphic novel based on the legendary 1989 comic strip of the same name. Richard McGuire's groundbreaking comic strip Here was published under Art Spiegelman's editorship at RAW in 1989. Built in six pages of interlocking panels, dated by year, it collapsed time and space to tell the story of the corner of a room - and its inhabitants - between the years 500,957,406,073 BC and 2313 AD. The strip remains one of the most influential and widely discussed contributions to the medium, and it has now been developed, expanded and reimagined by the artist into this full-length, full-colour graphic novel - a must for any fan of the genre.
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Each page shows the view from the same point in space, and the year is indicated, sometimes overlapping multiple years on one spread
There is not really any plot, you are just meant to see the art and feel the absolute scope of time, both across thousands of years and across a scant few. To imagine all that has come before and will come after, to try to wrap your head around one's own insignificance and brevity. This was lovely and it made me sad, would highly recommend.
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