The book’s precursor, the groundbreaking six-page comic “Here,” was published in RAW, in 1989, and he developed the book for fifteen years, beginning in 1999. “Here” itself is something that McGuire has been exploring over time.
The inclusiveness of McGuire’s approach, and his careful observational humor, feels affectionate and empathetic. The deep past (fires, swamps) and the far-out future (catastrophic sea levels, holograms) have gently rendered notes of the Biblical and the apocalyptic. Scenes often show multiple time periods simultaneously, through the use of frames, and cultural echoes appear in close proximity: a boy near a couch, in 1950, wearing a feather headdress and standing next to a small teepee Lenape Indians joking and flirting in the woods in 1609.
“Here” is an intimate view of a fixed space over time-a corner of a living room, or the space in the world it occupies-spanning millions of years, in styles ranging from comic art to illustration to watercolor. On a recent Wednesday night, the artist Richard McGuire discussed his new book, “Here,” with Bill Kartalopoulos, the editor of the Best American Comics series, at 192 Books, on Tenth Avenue.
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