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    Here

    Richard McGuire · 2014

    "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 BCE 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"

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    1. ZeroGravitasFeb 2022
      Some recent-ish ones, because many of my classic ones have been mentioned:

      Rotherweird by Andrew Caldecott

      Piranesi by Susanna Clarke

      The Prague Cemetery by Umberto Eco.

      Here by Richard McGuire

      The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay by Michael Chabon

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    2. dmuxSep 2021
      Sounds like something I'd really enjoy. Observing one particular space over time is the concept behind the graphic novel** "Here" by Richard McGuire.

      ** It's really light on dialogue (and characters for that matter). Way more emphasis on the Graphic part than the Novel part.

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    3. ryanSrichJul 2018
      If you're into this kind of work, I suggest spending an hour or so reading/looking through "Here" by Richard McGuire. It's a fascinating conceptual graphic novel that really gave me a new way of thinking about time. Even now, years after reading it, I find myself appreciating the history of physical spaces, even spending time to research buildings and different places I visit each day.

      https://mobile.nytimes.com/2015/10/18/books/review/richard-m...

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