Sequential Drawings

Richard McGuire has been an illustrator at the world-renowned New Yorker magazine for over a decade. In this time he has used his one-panel 'spots' as a unique canvas upon which to practice the art of the graphic miniseries. Here these series are collected for the first time, as a charming, joyful and witty 'short story' collection.

Publisher's description. A delightful collection of New Yorker illustration 'spots' from the creator of the canonical and innovative graphic novel, Here. Charming, joyful and witty, the graphic novelist's equivalent of a perfectly formed, short story collection.

Personally, I think he's a genius, transforming every medium he works within into his own peculiar personal language

[Sequential Drawings] showcases McGuire's mastery of form and economy along with his knack for highlighting the often overlooked habits of our daily lives...Freewheeling, artful and exuberant

Richard McGuire is a regular contributor to the New Yorker magazine. He has written and illustrated both children's books and experimental comics, including the seminal work Here. His work has appeared in The New York Times, McSweeney's, Le Monde and Libération. He has written and directed two omnibus feature films, designed and manufactured his own line of toys, and is also the founder and bass player of the band Liquid Liquid. His most recent book is Sequential Drawings, published by Hamish Hamilton.

Richard McGuire has illustrated the New Yorker's articles for over a decade, using these 'spots' as a unique canvas upon which to practice the art of the graphic miniseries. Each single-panel line drawing stands alone but also fits withing a wider series of variations on a theme or an unfolding story. Here these are collected for the first time, with a single spot per page to allow the series to unfold slowly with each turn of the page, as they would in the original magazine. The result is a charming, joyful and witty 'short story' collection.

Richard McGuire

Richard McGuire's groundbreaking comic strip Here was published under Art Spiegelman's editorship at RAW in 1989. 
 
Built in six pages of interlocking panels, dated by year, it collapsed time and space to tell the story of the corner of a room - and its inhabitants - between the years 500,957,406,073 BC and 2033 AD. 
 
The strip remains one of the most influential and widely discussed contributions to the medium, and it has now been developed, expanded and reimagined by the artist into this full-length, full-colour graphic novel - a must for any fan of the genre.

Richard McGuire

Books by Richard McGuire

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