Here

From now on, McGuire will be known as the author of the novel Here, because it's a work of literature and art unlike any seen or read before. A book like this comes along once a decade, if not a century

Chris Ware, Guardian

Promises to leapfrog immediately to the front ranks of the graphic-novel genre

Jennifer Schuessler, New York Times

Exquisitely drawn . . . dizzying. To hold it is to covet it

Rachel Cooke, Observer

All comics are somehow sheet music of time, but Richard's book is a symphony. I can't think of too many works that totally justify the odd share of attention comics have gotten in recent years, but this is one of them.

Art Spiegelman

A meditation on "impermanence" . . . emotionally compelling yet unsettling

Atlantic

A gorgeous symphony

Kirkus

Beautiful, mesmerizing, a dazzling experiment in form . . . both bleak and vivid and more a work of art than a comic book

Starburst

The concept is stunningly simple, and in laying bare the universality of existence - its beauty, ugliness, and mundanity - it is utterly moving

Booklist

McGuire adds lavish color and some plot, but he preserves the captivating, uncanny sense of love, anger and tragedy flying across the centuries while staying in one place.

Mark Athikis

One of the most engaging graphic novel experiments in book form I've ever seen

Los Angeles Times

Here heightens our awareness of how much has gone before and is still to come

Independent (Best graphic novels of 2014)

Rarely does a conceptual work seize the emotions like Here. Every moment seems insignificant compared with the massive sweep of time, and yet the most trivial actions take on an aching poignancy

NPR

Almost overwhelmingly poignant. His masterful sense of time and the power of the mundane makes this feel like the graphic novel equivalent of Terrence Malick's The Tree of Life

Publishers Weekly (starred review)

Completely wonderful

Metro

You begin to appreciate McGuire's extraordinary command of history and pacing . . . the non-chronological arrangement seems faithful to how consciousness really works

FInancial Times Weekend