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1001 COMICS MINI-SITE

Even with 960 pages, I couldn't squeeze all the material I had into my book 1001 Comics You Must Read Before You Die. This mini-site is designed to supplement that book with updates, additional information and links... but obviously you'll still need a copy of the book!

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Here

by Richard McGuire

Original publisher: Pengiun Books (USA)
First published: 1989
Reviewed by: Stephen Betts
Genre: Avant Garde, Science Fiction

Recommendations:

Every once in a while an artist comes along who takes the accurred potential of his or her discipline and recasts it into a brand-new way of seeing or feeling. Cézanne famously accomplished it with painting, Stravinsky did it with music, Joyce with writing - and Richard McGuire, I think, did it with comics. It may sound a bit hyperbolic, but I believe that with his deceptively modest strip Here, which first appeared in Raw magazine, vol 2, no. 1, in 1989, Richard McGuire revolutionised the narrative possibilities of comic strips. - Chris Ware (from Comic Art #8)

Other Editions:

Here is a six-page short story which has appreared in:

RAW Vol 2, #1
edited by Art Spiegelman
Pengiun Books, 1989

An Anthology Of Graphic Fiction, Cartoons & True Stories
eduited by Ivan Brunetti
Yale University Press, 2006

Comic Art #8
edited by Todd Hignite
Buenaventura Press, 2006

Links:
Richard McGuire
Richard McGuire's Here

 

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