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Sunday, February 2, 2025

REVIEW: Here (graphic novel) by Richard McGuire

Here is an experimental graphic novel. It doesn't really fit into any genres, although it has elements of historical fiction, domestic fiction, and science fiction. I bought my copy new.

Review:

This is a very experimental graphic novel. Apparently it started off as just a six-page work and was later expanded. The story, such as it is, is presently nonlinearly, through glimpses of a single room (or location, since the room doesn't always exist) over the course of hundreds of thousands of years. Several time periods are shown simultaneously, via little slices of the overall picture. We see how things are in the room's location before people exist. We see history happen in that location (I think the one character is Ben Franklin?), we see the house get built in 1907, and we see people grow, live, and die there. The house itself is destroyed in 2111, but things continue to happen in that same location.