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 2033 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.'From now on McGuire will be known as the author of
the novel Here because it's a work of literature and art unlike any seen or read before. A
book like this comes along once a decade if not a century' Chris Ware Guardian'Promises to
leapfrog immediately to the front ranks of the graphic-novel genre' New York TimesRichard
McGuire is a regular contributor to the New Yorker magazine. He has written and illustrated
both children's books and experimental comics. His work has appeared in The New York Times
McSweeney's Le Monde and Libération. He has written and directed two omnibus feature films
designed and manufactured his own line of toys and is also the founder and bass player of the
band Liquid Liquid.
