Pantheon Graphic Library Here, (Hardcover)

from bookworm12

This graphic novel is hard to describe. The entire thing takes place in one room of a house, but over thousands of years. Each page contains a variety of images with the year listed in the top corner. There might be a Native American hunting in the woods in one corner and a young child dancing by...

from eldang

The most interesting, mind-bending comic I've read. The basic conceit is that every image on every page is of the same spot, a room in the house the author grew up in, in New Jersey. The time frame shifts from before there was a recognisable earth (possibly before the history of the universe?) to...

from psalva

This is such a dazzling book. The way McGuire overlaps all the episodes on top of one another is revelatory. I love how we can see how much has changed and how much things stay the same all at once. I'll be thinking about this for a while

from gendeg

Back in the pre-digital camera days, keeping photos was an archivist ritual. Mine were always scattered in old, musty albums or clipped together in random piles with rubber bands and tossed in shoe boxes hastily labelled, to be forgotten and discovered and forgotten again. Things were in no parti...

from bobbybslax

I wouldn't give it many points for the quality of its dialogue or even many of the juxtapositions designed here, since it seems to present a simple and not all that novel message by the end, but the novelty of its experimentation with time and space is still very much fascinating for a short 300 ...