The Comics Bureau

This has been doing the rounds recently, but I thought I’d post it up any­way. From Mon­sters & Rockets;

Nobody who has read Richard McGuire’s 1989 comic stri­pHere has ever for­got­ten it. (Ori­gin­ally prin­ted in Raw: Vol. 2, Num­ber 1, it’s more recently been reprin­ted in Ivan Brunetti’s An Antho­logy of Graphic Fic­tion, Car­toons and True Stor­ies and in the eighth issue of Comic Art. ) A truly mind-bending work, the strip jumps around in time but not in space, show­ing us vari­ous events occur­ring on a little patch of land over the course of bil­lions of years.Here is form­ally dar­ing but also sur­pris­ingly mov­ing, drop­ping us into ran­dom moments in the lives of the people who have called “here” their home.

I’ve been a big fan of the strip for years, but I had no idea that it had inspired a short film. This is appar­ently a stu­dent work, but it’s hardly ama­teur­ish. To say it’s per­haps half as good as the ori­ginal is not a bad thing when the ori­ginal is this great. Still, I strongly sug­gest you read the ori­ginal on this site before watch­ing the film. You’ll never look at your home in quite the same way again.