From one of the great comic innovators, the long-awaited
fulfillment of his pioneering comic vision.
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 archaeology 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.
(With full-color illustrations throughout.)
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