Here

Here fixes its viewpoint on a single place while windows into other years interrupt the present image. Domestic moments, earlier histories and distant futures coexist on the page. The 2014 book expands McGuire’s six-page comic published in RAW in 1989.

The original short comic and its later book demonstrate a powerful formal idea: a location can be the protagonist of a narrative. The device makes ordinary gestures resonate against deep time.

Experimental historical fiction displaces linear chronology. The book invites readers to trace patterns across eras without pretending those eras are the same.

Inset panels create layers of time inside a shared visual field. Changes in palette and drawing texture mark periods while preserving the continuity of place.