Richard McGuire

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McGuire in 2015

Richard McGuire (born 1957 in New Jersey ) is an American musician, children's book author, game designer, illustrator, comic book author and all-rounder.

Life

Richard McGuire played electric bass in the 1980s and was a founding member of the Liquid Liquid group . He wrote and drew children's books and designed games. His illustrations have appeared in The New York Times , Le Monde, and the covers of The New Yorker . In 1989 he drew a six-page story under the title Here for Raw magazine . In 2010 he expanded this picture story into a book that appeared in 2014 under the same title and was also translated into German.

In 2006 McGuire received the “Prize of the École Supérieure de l'Image ” at the Festival International de la Bande Dessinée d'Angoulême . In 2007 he made a contribution to the French film production company Peur (s) du noir .

McGuire lives in New York City and Paris.

Here

In the graphic novel Here , “time” unfolds in a “room” of the living room of a suburban house in what is now New Jersey. Each picture has a temporal location, but the pictures in the book are not arranged in historical order. An additional image is inserted in each of the images, the action of which is before or in the future. One of the pictures shows a return to the time of the dinosaurs at the scene , the year 2113 shows the place in the depths of a sea, in between 1624 European conquerors and indigenous inhabitants collide, which in 1986 led archaeologists to an elderly inhabitant declare that their house is on a historic site where Benjamin Franklin was.

Works (selection)

  • The orange book. New York: Children's Universe, 1992
  • Night becomes day. New York: Viking, 1994
  • What goes around comes around. New York: Viking, 1995
  • What's wrong with this book? . New York: Viking, 1997
  • Here. Pantheon 2014

literature

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Here (1989) at Entrecomics
  2. ^ A b John Sunyer: As time goes by , review, in: Financial Times , December 13, 2014, p. 12
  3. ^ Love, death and some smaller things in: Frankfurter Allgemeine Sonntagszeitung from March 29, 2015, page 44
personal data
SURNAME McGuire, Richard
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American musician, illustrator, comic book writer and all-rounder
DATE OF BIRTH 1957
PLACE OF BIRTH New Jersey