Richard McGuire

A film adaptation of Here, directed by Robert Zemeckis and starring Tom Hanks and Robin Wright, was released in 2024.

The recorded working language is English. The field of work recorded is illustration, design and music. Subjects and genres recorded for the work are dance music. Work by Richard McGuire is recorded in the collections of Museum of Modern Art.

• Name — Richard McGuire • Born — 1957 • Birthplace — New Jersey, US • Field — Graphic novel • Notable Works — "Here" • Education — Rutgers University

McGuire was born and raised in Perth Amboy, New Jersey. He graduated from Rutgers University. 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. Liquid Liquid is best known for the song "Cavern", whose bass line has been frequently sampled. 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. 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). 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'." In 2023 an offset edition of Popeye and Olive was published by Fotokino. In 2009, McGuire was awarded The Dorothy and Lewis B. Cullman Center for Scholars and Writers fellowship at the New York Public Library.

• "The Dot Man," 1 pg. from Bad News #3 (Fantagraphics, 1988) • "Here", 6 pgs. from RAW vol. 2 #1 (1989). Reprinted in An Anthology of Graphic Fiction, Cartoons and True Stories vol. 1 (Yale University Press, 2006) and Comic Art #8 (Buenaventura Press, 2006) • "The Thinkers," 1 pg. from RAW vol. 2 #2 (1990) • "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)

• Here (Pantheon: 2014)

• "Micro Loup" (7-minute short from Loulou et autres loups, 2003) • Peur(s) du noir (16-minute untitled segment, 2007)

• 1981 "New York/New Wave" (PS1, Long Island City) — group show curated by Diego Cortez • 2014 "From Here to Here: Richard McGuire Makes a Book" (Morgan Library & Museum, New York City) • 2018–2019 "Richard McGuire: The Way There and Back" (The Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum, Ridgefield, Connecticut) — exhibition of 60 tabletop sculptures • 2021 "Sound and Vision" (Fotokino, Marseille, France) • 2024 "Richard McGuire: Then and There, Here and Now" (Cartoonmuseum Basel – Centre for Narrative Art, Basel, Switzerland)

• An interview on his music and comics careers • An interview concerning his animated works • Spoiler Alert Radio interview • Who's Afraid of Noir- an interview • Strapazin interview

Richard McGuire is recorded as cartoonist, writer, comics artist, designer and musician. McGuire, Richard, Kindlers Literatur Lexikon (KLL), 2020. McGuire, Richard: Here, Kindlers Literatur Lexikon (KLL), 2020.

• The Orange Book (New York: Children's Universe, 1992) • Night Becomes Day (New York: Viking, 1994) • What Goes Around Comes Around (New York: Viking, 1995) • What's Wrong With This Book? (New York: Viking, 1997)