![]() ![]() Small stories play out a few pages at a time. In another, labeled "1430," a wolf walks by with a venison haunch. In one inset window labeled "1986," a woman cleans the floor. Perhaps a radio is playing in the main picture in 1943. Here - both in its original form and expanded into a full-color book - consists of a simple tactic that might even be called a gimmick: As events take place in a single large room, boxes appear showing what was happening in that spot at some other time in the past or future. McGuire himself spent more than eight years creating this book-length version.Īt first glance, it's hard to see what the big deal is. What is it about Richard McGuire's Here? A simple-looking, black-and-white cartoon that first appeared in Raw magazine in 1989 - clocking in at a mere 36 panels - it's maintained its hold on comic artists' imaginations ever since. ![]() Here traces millenia of history - and prehistory - within the space of one large room. ![]()
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