Richard McGuire
Writing
Biography
Richard McGuire (born 1957 in New Jersey) is an American graphic novelist, artist, and musician. His illustrations have been published in The New York Times, The New Yorker, and Le Monde, and his work is in the collections of the Museum of Modern Art and the Morgan Library & Museum. His comic "Here" (first published in 1989) is among the most lauded comics from recent decades, with an updated graphic novel version published by Pantheon Books in December 2014. A film adaptation of Here, directed by Robert Zemeckis and starring Tom Hanks and Robin Wright, was released in 2024. Description above from the Wikipedia article Richard McGuire, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Known For
An odyssey through time and memory, centered on a place in New Jersey where—from wilderness, and then, later, from a home—love, loss, struggle, hope and legacy play out between couples and families over generations.
Here
Several scary black-and-white animated segments in different styles appeal to our fear(s) of the dark.
Fear(s) of the Dark
One summer in the land of rabbits, Loulou the wolf suddenly finds himself all alone. Wondering how he will survive in this new world he makes friends and discovers a new life.
Loulou et autres loups...
A student-produced live-action short adaptation of Richard McGuire's 6-page comic originally published in RAW magazine. The short film is about a series of events in time that happen in one point of space: the corner of a room in a normal house.
Here
A burly mustached man breaks into a seemingly abandoned house to escape a blizzard.
La maison dans la neige
To present the world's smallest wolf in New York, that's fine. But mind the little greedy one doesn't gobble up the Big Apple.