Richard McGuire

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Richard McGuire
Richard McGuire - Lucca Comics & Games 2015.JPG
McGuire in 2015
Born1957 (age 68–69)
New Jersey, US
Alma mater Rutgers University
Known for Graphic novel
Notable work"Here"

Richard McGuire (born 1957 [1] in New Jersey) is an American graphic novelist, artist, and musician. [2] [3] [4] [5] 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. [6] 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. [7] [8] [9] A film adaptation of Here, directed by Robert Zemeckis and starring Tom Hanks and Robin Wright, was released in 2024. [10]

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Biography

McGuire was born and raised in Perth Amboy, New Jersey. [11] He graduated from Rutgers University. [12]

Soon after graduating college, McGuire and a group of friends formed the band Liquid Idiot before relocating to Manhattan in 1979, where the group reformed as the dance-punk band Liquid Liquid, with McGuire serving as the band's bassist. [3] [13] [12] Liquid Liquid is best known for the song "Cavern", whose bass line has been frequently sampled. [14] The group disbanded in 1983 but reformed in 2008 and have played in multiple countries.

McGuire's early art career was as a street artist in the vibrant 1980s East Village scene. He participated in the landmark 1981 "New York/New Wave" group exhibition at PS1 in Long Island City, alongside notable figures such as Robert Mapplethorpe, Jean-Michel Basquiat, and David Byrne. [12]

McGuire was a key contributor to the 1995 chain story / comic jam The Narrative Corpse , shepherded by Art Spiegelman and Robert Sikoryak. McGuire was brought in to link Strand 2 of the story back to Strand 1 (bridging the contributions of Carol Swain and Drew Friedman). [15]

McGuire's first cover for The New Yorker was published in 1993; from 2006 to 2011 his work appeared regularly on the magazine's covers.

In 2001, McGuire made two limited-edition, screenprinted artist's books for the French publisher Cornelius. The first one, Popeye and Olive, was an "abstract love story". In the second book, P + O, McGuire "rearranged the silhouetted shapes of the two characters into new combinations which became a 'vocabulary of the relationship'." [16] In 2023 an offset edition of Popeye and Olive was published by Fotokino. [17]

In 2009, McGuire was awarded The Dorothy and Lewis B. Cullman Center for Scholars and Writers fellowship at the New York Public Library. [18]

Bibliography

Comics

Short stories

  • "The Dot Man," 1 pg. from Bad News #3 (Fantagraphics, 1988)
  • "Here", 6 pgs. from RAW vol. 2 #1 (1989) ( ISBN   9780140122657). Reprinted in An Anthology of Graphic Fiction, Cartoons and True Stories vol. 1 (Yale University Press, 2006) ( ISBN   9780300111705) and Comic Art #8 (Buenaventura Press, 2006) ( ISBN   9781584232575)
  • "The Thinkers," 1 pg. from RAW vol. 2 #2 (1990) ( ISBN   9780140122657)
  • "Bon appétit," fold-out comic booklet from 2wBOX Set I (Switzerland: Bülb Comix, 2002)
  • "ctrl," 6 pgs. from Timothy McSweeney's Quarterly Concern#13 (2003) ( ISBN   9781932416084)

Graphic novels

Children's literature

Artist's books

Filmography

Awards

Public exhibitions

References

  1. ↑ Heller, Steven (September 25, 2014). "The One-Room Time Machine". The Atlantic. Retrieved November 11, 2014.
  2. ↑ "Chris Ware on Here by Richard McGuire – a game-changing graphic novel". the Guardian. December 17, 2014. Retrieved December 19, 2022.
  3. 1 2 Sokol, Brett (September 19, 2018). "From '80s Street Art to Graphic Novels. And Back". The New York Times. ISSN   0362-4331 . Retrieved December 19, 2022.
  4. ↑ Garner, Dwight (December 23, 2014). "While Stuck in a Corner, an Artist Bends Time". The New York Times. ISSN   0362-4331 . Retrieved December 19, 2022.
  5. ↑ Gabel, J. C. (December 4, 2014). "Q&A: Richard McGuire's 'Here' takes on a larger life as graphic novel". Los Angeles Times. Retrieved May 2, 2023.
  6. ↑ "The Profound Mundanity of Richard McGuire's "My Things"". The New Yorker. May 18, 2018. Retrieved May 2, 2023.
  7. ↑ Schuessler, Jennifer (September 25, 2014). "Sharing a Sofa With Dinosaurs". The New York Times. Retrieved November 11, 2014.
  8. ↑ "Here by Richard McGuire". Kirkus Reviews. Retrieved December 14, 2014.
  9. ↑ Lohier, Patrick (December 11, 2014). "Here is Richard McGuire's epic of time". Boing Boing. Retrieved December 14, 2014.
  10. ↑ Giardina, Carolyn (January 31, 2023). "Tom Hanks, Robin Wright to Be De-aged in Robert Zemeckis' New Movie Using Metaphysic AI Tool". The Hollywood Reporter. Retrieved May 2, 2023.
  11. ↑ Heller, Steven (September 25, 2014). "The One-Room Time Machine". The Atlantic. Archived from the original on November 12, 2014. Retrieved November 11, 2014.
  12. 1 2 3 Hyman, Vicki (December 15, 2014). "'Here' and forever: See how one graphic novelist imagines New Jersey over trillions of years". ENTERTAINMENT.
  13. ↑ "From Here to Here: Richard McGuire Makes a Book". The Morgan Library & Museum. July 11, 2014. Retrieved November 11, 2014.
  14. ↑ "Liquid Liquid: The Most Important NY Band You've Never Heard Of". Observer. July 16, 2015. Retrieved April 25, 2018.
  15. ↑ "Introduction". The Narrative Corpse. (Raw Books/Gates of Heck. 1995.
  16. ↑ McGuire, Richard. "Popeye + Olive". Richard-McGuire.com. Retrieved November 25, 2024.
  17. ↑ "Popeye and Olive, de Richard McGuire". Fotokino. Retrieved November 25, 2024.
  18. ↑ "Hear HERE: An Evening with Richard McGuire". New York Public Library. October 16, 2014.
  19. ↑ "結果発表｜ガイマン賞". gaiman.jp. Archived from the original on May 13, 2021. Retrieved December 20, 2017.
  20. ↑ "Prêmio Grampo 2018: Angola Janga, de Marcelo D'Salete, é o grande vencedor" (in Portuguese). Revista O Grito. February 4, 2018.
  21. ↑ Heller, Steven (September 25, 2014). "The One-Room Time Machine". The Atlantic. Retrieved November 11, 2014.
  22. ↑ "Richard McGuire: The Way There and Back". Artsy.net. Retrieved November 25, 2024.
  23. ↑ Cartoonmuseum Basel, Vincent Tuset-Anrès, Anette Gehrig, Richard McGuire (ed.): Richard McGuire – Then and There, Here and Now. Christoph Merian Verlag, Basel 2024, ISBN 978-3-03969-024-4.

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