Richard McGuire · Salamander Gr.
Here It has so many layers of meaning and so many story lines. (and none specific), that the discoveries never end with her. On the occasion of the premiere of the film version by Robert Zemeckis, Salamandra Graphic has reissued this monumental graphic novel that shook the foundations of the genre, including in the volume the six original black and white pages published in 1989 in the magazine Raw that were the germ of everything. The definitive version of Here, published in 2015, won the Best Work Award at the Angûleme Festival and became a landmark work of contemporary comics. Basically, Richard McGuare tells what happened in the corner of a room along hundreds of thousands of years. As simple and as complicated as that. Playing with time – mix shots, scenes and eras – to take us back millions of years, to meet the dinosaurs or the natives of the United States, but also to the future, maybe technological, or radioactive or devastated. In the corner of that house in Massachusetts (all the signs point there) several generations have been raised that have played and danced, they have dressed up and loved, between furniture and decoration that evolves over the years, while the hairstyles, the clothes, the pets, the curtain, the leaks and the walls. Pure formal and content innovation that resulted in a masterpiece of the genre. S.M.
