“Here” by Richard McGuire, USA, 1989


Here by Richard McGuire (USA) in: RAW Volume 2 #1, USA, 1989.

It was the first time I had had my mind blown. Sitting on that couch, I felt time extend infinitely backwards and forwards, with a sense of all the biggest of small moments in between. And it wasn’t just my mind: “Here” blew apart the confines of graphic narrative and expanded its universe in one incendiary flash, introducing a new dimension to visual narrative that radically departed from the traditional up-down and left-right reading of comic strips. And the structure was organic, nodding not only to the medium’s past but also hinting at its future.” Chris Ware, The Guardian, December 17, 2014 (see below for link to the article).

Dear students, the 2014 extended version of Here is available @ Kinokuniya bookstores.

Copyright ©1989 Richard McGuire – Reproduced with permission

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A few pages from the 2014 version of Here (by Pantheon Books) and Chris Ware on Here by Richard McGuire – a game-changing graphic novel (for The Guardian).


An interesting adaptation of the original six pages of McGuire’s Here into a short film (“about a series of events in time that happen in one point of space: the corner of a room in a normal house”). Student-produced at the RIT Dept. of Film & Video in 1991, by Tim Masick and Bill Trainor for their senior thesis project.


And an interesting GIF of Richard McGuire’s complete original version of Here.

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“The Spirit: Plaster of Paris” by Will Eisner, USA, 1948


The Spirit Section #441: Plaster of Paris by Will Eisner (USA), The Star-Ledger, USA, November 7, 1948. With complete original art below.

Dear students, The Spirit : Femmes Fatales is available @ Kinokuniya bookstores.

Copyright © Will Eisner Studios, Inc.

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“MASTER RACE” by Bernie Krigstein, USA, 1955

 


MASTER RACE by  Bernie Krigstein (& Al Feldstein) in: Impact #1, EC Comics, USA, April 1955. Cover by Jack Davis (and original art) below.

Dear students, Messages in a Bottle : Comic Book Stories by B. Krigstein is available @ Kinokuniya bookstores.

Copyright ©2012 William M. Gaines Agent, Inc.

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“Master Race” cover for “Impact” #01 by Jack Davis (USA), 1955.
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“Master Race” cover for “Impact” #01 by Jack Davis (USA), original art, 1955.

“BIG ‘IF’!” by Harvey Kurtzman, USA, 1952


BIG ‘IF’!  by Harvey Kurtzman (USA) in: Frontline Combat #5, EC Comics, USA, March 1952.

Dear students, Corpse on the Imjin! and Other Stories (including BIG ‘IF’! in b&w) is available @ Kinokuniya bookstores.

Copyright ©2012 William M. Agent, Inc.

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On Narrative Structure & Oxymoron, from the sixth Graphic Writing lesson, CommArts, Chula