Richard McGuire

McGuire was born and raised in Perth Amboy, New Jersey.{{cite web|last1=Heller|first1=Steven|title=The One-Room Time Machine|url=https://www.theatlantic.com/entertainment/archive/2014/09/richard-mcguires-time-machine-with-a-view/380736/|accessdate=November 11, 2014|publisher=The Atlantic|date=September 25, 2014|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141112074120/https://www.theatlantic.com/entertainment/archive/2014/09/richard-mcguires-time-machine-with-a-view/380736/|archive-date=Nov 12, 2014}} He graduated from Rutgers University.{{cite news|department=ENTERTAINMENT|title='Here' and forever: See how one graphic novelist imagines New Jersey over trillions of years|date=Dec 15, 2014|first=Vicki|last=Hyman|url=https://www.nj.com/entertainment/2014/12/richard_mcguire_here_raw_pantheon.html}}

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.{{cite web|title=From Here to Here: Richard McGuire Makes a Book|date=July 11, 2014 |url=http://www.themorgan.org/exhibitions/From-Here-to-Here|accessdate=November 11, 2014|publisher=The Morgan Library & Museum}} Liquid Liquid is best known for the song "Cavern", whose bass line has been frequently sampled.{{Cite news|url=http://observer.com/2015/07/liquid-liquid-the-most-important-ny-band-youve-never-heard-of/|title=Liquid Liquid: The Most Important NY Band You've Never Heard Of|date=2015-07-16|work=Observer|access-date=2018-04-25|language=en-US}} 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).{{cite book|chapter=Introduction |title=The Narrative Corpse |publisher=(Raw Books/Gates of Heck |date=1995}}

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'."{{cite web|url=https://www.richard-mcguire.com/popeye-olive-copy|title=Popeye + Olive|last=McGuire|first=Richard|website=Richard-McGuire.com|access-date=Nov 25, 2024}} In 2023 an offset edition of Popeye and Olive was published by Fotokino.{{cite web|url=https://www.shop-fotokino.com/products/popeye-and-olive-de-richard-mcguire|title=Popeye and Olive, de Richard McGuire|access-date=Nov 25, 2024|publisher=Fotokino}}

In 2009, McGuire was awarded The Dorothy and Lewis B. Cullman Center for Scholars and Writers fellowship at the New York Public Library.{{cite web|title=Hear HERE: An Evening with Richard McGuire|publisher=New York Public Library|date=October 16, 2014|url=https://www.nypl.org/events/programs/2014/10/16/hear-here-evening-richard-mcguire}}

• "The Dot Man," 1 pg. from Bad News #3 (Fantagraphics, 1988)
• "Here", 6 pgs. from RAW vol. 2 #1 (1989) ({{ISBN|9780140122657}}). Reprinted in An Anthology of Graphic Fiction, Cartoons and True Stories vol. 1 (Yale University Press, 2006) ({{ISBN|9780300111705}}) and Comic Art #8 (Buenaventura Press, 2006) ({{ISBN|9781584232575}})
• "The Thinkers," 1 pg. from RAW vol. 2 #2 (1990) ({{ISBN|9780140122657}})
• "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) ({{ISBN|9781932416084}})

• Here (Pantheon: 2014) ({{ISBN|9780375406508}})

• The Orange Book (New York: Children's Universe, 1992) ({{ISBN|9780847814657}})
• Night Becomes Day (New York: Viking, 1994) ({{ISBN|9780670855476}})
• What Goes Around Comes Around (New York: Viking, 1995) ({{ISBN|9780670863969}})
• What's Wrong With This Book? (New York: Viking, 1997) ({{ISBN|9780670868520}})

• Popeye and Olive (Paris: Cornelius, 2001) ({{ISBN|9782909990620}})
• P+O (Paris: Cornelius, 2002) ({{ISBN|2909990605}})

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

• 2009 Dorothy and Lewis B. Cullman Center for Scholars and Writers fellowship at the New York Public Library
• 2016 Angoulême International Comics Festival Prize for Best Album for the French edition of Here, titled Ici and published by Éditions Gallimard
• 2017 Gaiman Award 2nd place for Here{{Cite web|url=http://gaiman.jp/archive/2017|title=結果発表｜ガイマン賞|website=gaiman.jp|access-date=2017-12-20|url-status=dead|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20210513094303/https://gaiman.jp/archive/2017.html|archivedate=13 May 2021}}
• 2018 Prêmio Grampo Silver for the Portuguese-language edition of Here, titled Aqui and published by Cia. das Letras{{cite web |url=https://www.revistaogrito.com/premio-grampo-2018-angola-janga-de-marcelo-dsalete-e-o-grande-vencedor/ |title=Prêmio Grampo 2018: Angola Janga, de Marcelo D’Salete, é o grande vencedor |publisher=Revista O Grito |date=February 4, 2018 |language=pt}}

• 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){{cite web|last1=Heller|first1=Steven|author-link=Steven Heller (design writer)|title=The One-Room Time Machine|url=https://www.theatlantic.com/entertainment/archive/2014/09/richard-mcguires-time-machine-with-a-view/380736/|accessdate=November 11, 2014|work=The Atlantic|date=September 25, 2014}}
• 2018–2019 "Richard McGuire: The Way There and Back" (The Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum, Ridgefield, Connecticut) — exhibition of 60 tabletop sculptures{{cite web|url=https://www.artsy.net/show/the-aldrich-contemporary-art-museum-richard-mcguire-the-way-there-and-back|title=Richard McGuire: The Way There and Back|website=Artsy.net|access-date=Nov 25, 2024}}
• 2024 "Richard McGuire: Then and There, Here and Now" (Cartoonmuseum Basel – Centre for Narrative Art, Basel, Switzerland)Cartoonmuseum Basel, Vincent Tuset-Anrès, Anette Gehrig, Richard McGuire (ed.): Richard McGuire – Then and There, Here and Now. Christoph Merian Verlag, Basel 2024, ISBN 978-3-03969-024-4.

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• {{cite news|title=The Graphic Novel Panel: Chip Kidd, Charles Burns, Kim Deitch, Kaz, Richard McGuire, Art Spiegelman and Chris Ware discuss contemporary funnybooks|work=The Comics Journal|issue=243|date=May 2002}}
• Cartoonmuseum Basel, Vincent Tuset-Anrès, Anette Gehrig, Richard McGuire (ed.): "Richard McGuire – Then and There, Here and Now". Christoph Merian Verlag, Basel 2024, ISBN 978-3-03969-024-4

• {{Official website|http://www.richard-mcguire.com/}}
• [https://thenewyorkercovers.wordpress.com/category/richard-mcguire/ A sample of his New Yorker covers]
• [http://popculturehound.net/event-richard-mcguire-steven-appleby-in-conversation-november-14-2011/ Notes from a UK comics event]
• [https://turtleandrobot.wordpress.com/2012/10/23/follow-the-oranges/ Follow the oranges in The Orange Book]

• [http://www.honeyee.com/think/2008/richard_mcguire/ An interview on his music and comics careers]
• [http://www.aiga.org/whos-afraid-of-noir-an-interview-with-richard-mcguire/ An interview concerning his animated works]
• [http://spoileralertradio.libsyn.com/richard_mc_guire_fear_s_of_the_dark Spoiler Alert Radio interview]
• [http://www.aiga.org/whos-afraid-of-noir-an-interview-with-richard-mcguire/ Who's Afraid of Noir- an interview]
• [http://www.strapazin.de/inhalt88/txt_mcguire.htm Strapazin interview]{{in lang|de}}

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