Aquí / Here
"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 archeology 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"--
Publisher Marketing: RICHARD MCGUIRE es un asiduo colaborador de The New Yorker . Su obra se ha publicado en The New York Times , McSweeney's, Le Monde y Libération, entre otros. Ha participado en el guión y la dirección de dos películas de episodios Loulou et Autres Loups (2003) y Peur (s) du Noir (2007). Asimismo, ha diseñado y fabricado su propia línea de juguetes y es también el fundador y bajista del grupo de música Liquid Liquid. Las seis páginas originales de Aquí , publicadas en 1989 en la revista Raw, fueron reconocidas de inmediato como una obra transformadora que ampliaba las posibilidades del cómic. Aquí (Salamandra Graphic, 2015) ganó el Premio a la Mejor Obra en el Festival de Angulema 2016. Publisher Marketing : El libro que ha inspirado una adaptación, ahora en cines
Format: Hardcover | Pages: 312 | Publication Date: 2025-03-11
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