How often do you come across
a graphic novel
that has taken 15 years to create?
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This year,
McGuire released a hardcover book
of three hundred and twenty pages
that pictorially described
a plot of land
no bigger than your front room
or living room over a
long period of time.
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Chris Ware, writing in the Guardian, describes Here as:
"...the corner of a room from a fixed viewpoint,
projecting a parade of moments, holidays, people, animals, biology, geology
- everything, it seems, that defines life and lends human life meaning - on to windows of
space labelled by year (1971, 1957, 1999, 100,097 BC)..."
It started off, as Mr. ware describes, as a six page story
in RAW volume 2 number 1 in 1989.
The chronology ranges from 500,957,406,073 BCE to 2033 CE
but not necessarily in the right order.
"...the corner of a room from a fixed viewpoint,
projecting a parade of moments, holidays, people, animals, biology, geology
- everything, it seems, that defines life and lends human life meaning - on to windows of
space labelled by year (1971, 1957, 1999, 100,097 BC)..."
It started off, as Mr. ware describes, as a six page story
in RAW volume 2 number 1 in 1989.
The chronology ranges from 500,957,406,073 BCE to 2033 CE
but not necessarily in the right order.
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Also the spine of the book acts as the corner of the room,
I urge you to get it.
Not only is it a graphic novel of great intellect,
it combines history, architecture, environment,
examples of society and diet (to name only a few themes)
- it also gives you time to mull over a great exhibition.
All of these pages could easily be hung in a gallery.
Don't trust me, have a listen to
a podcast here.
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