LEADER 00000cam 2200421 i 4500 001 ocn870211340 003 OCoLC 005 20141205160016.0 008 140206s2014 nyu 6 000 0 eng 010 2014003489 019 868199313 020 9780375406508|q(hardback) 020 0375406506|q(hardback) 035 (OCoLC)870211340|z(OCoLC)868199313 040 DLC|beng|erda|cDLC|dIG#|dYDXCP|dBDX|dBTCTA|dIAD|dCKE 049 CKEA 050 00 PN6727.M288|bH47 2014 082 00 741.5/973|223 084 CGN006000|aCGN004030|aCGN004070|2bisacsh 100 1 McGuire, Richard. 245 10 Here /|cRichard McGuire. 250 First edition 264 1 New York :|bPantheon,|c2014. 300 1 volume (unpaged) :|billustrations ;|c25 cm 336 text|2rdacontent 336 still image|2rdacontent 337 unmediated|2rdamedia 338 volume|2rdacarrier 520 "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 BC 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"--|cProvided by publisher. 650 0 Time|vComic books, strips, etc. 650 0 COMICS & GRAPHIC NOVELS / Literary. 650 0 COMICS & GRAPHIC NOVELS / Fantasy. 650 0 COMICS & GRAPHIC NOVELS / Science Fiction. 655 7 Graphic novels.|2lcgft 655 7 Comics (Graphic works)|2lcgft 994 02|bCKE
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