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In Slumberland a beautiful and surreal fantasy rendered in stunning art nouveau line and subtle yet daring colour and designed with layouts that anticipate cinematic storytelling techniues Gertie the Dinosaur remain landmarks in the history of this art and were unmatched in the fluid movement and personality of the characters until the mature films of Walt Disney came along two decades late This book is absolutely one of the most enthralling reads I ve recently come across McCay s life story is the stuff of legend Truly an inspirational figure in American history

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John Canemaker reviews and fully analyzes McCay's achievements in print and film examining his work in relation to his life his family and to American culture and values of the period Original art from all the McCay's endeavors and rare personal photographs provide a visual counterpart to Canemaker's fascinating text Begining with McCay's childhood in pioneer era Michigan circa this biograph An excellent biography of Winsor McCay with full reproductions of his work throughout The book covers every phase of McCay s career it turns out there s to appreciate than The Dream of the Rarebit Fiend and Little Nemo in Slumberland Those two strips remain his ultimate creations and the peak of the comic strip especially Little Nemo which is to my mind the single best comic strip ever created Still I was interested in his political cartoons his propaganda work his short lived strips like Sammy Sneeze and Hungry Henrietta and Pilgrim s Progress with Mister Bunion and especially his role as an animation innovator Includes many fulsome tributes from the many famous artists and animators who were influenced by him count Walt Disney Maurice Sendak and Art Spiegelman among them Many of the nightmarish Rarebit Fiend strips are displayed here including one of a woman experiencing prenuptial anxiety with some shocking sexual symbolism and a Twilight Zone ish strip showing the perspective of a dying man being laid to rest as everyone discusses what a terrible person he was The bulk of the book is taken up by Little Nemo in Slumberland for good reason What can I say about this groundbreaking comic than what has already been said Only that nothing beats reading these beautifully drawn amazingly detailed hand colored strips in their original 3 foot tall newsprint sized editions in the collection So Many Sundays that came out several years ago The White Nights of Ramadan ultimate creations and the peak of the comic strip especially Little Nemo which is to my mind the single best comic strip ever created Still I was interested in his political cartoons his propaganda work his short lived strips like Sammy Sneeze and Hungry Henrietta and Pilgrim s Progress with Mister Bunion and especially his role as an animation innovator Includes many fulsome tributes from the many famous artists and animators who were influenced by him count Walt Disney Maurice Sendak and Art Spiegelman among them Many of the nightmarish Rarebit Fiend strips are displayed here including one of a woman experiencing prenuptial anxiety with some shocking sexual symbolism and a Twilight Zone ish strip showing the perspective of a dying man being laid to rest as everyone discusses what a terrible person he was The bulk of the book is taken Beyond the Pale up by Little Nemo in Slumberland for good reason What can I say about this groundbreaking comic than what has already been said Only that nothing beats reading these beautifully drawn amazingly detailed hand colored strips in their original 3 foot tall newsprint sized editions in the collection So Many Sundays that came out several years ago

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Y moves on through his earliest attempts to find an artistic voice in Chicago and turn of the century Cincinnati his work with circus posters as a uick sketch newspaper reporter as a headliner chalk talk artist in vaudeville as crown jewel in William Randolph Hearst's grand line up of newspaper cartoonists and as the greatest of the early animators McCay's masterpiece is the epic Little Nemo This is a great book about the history of the comic from the early part of the 20th century Extensive Doctors, Ambassadors, Secretaries uick sketch newspaper reporter as a headliner chalk talk artist in vaudeville as crown jewel in William Randolph Hearst's grand line Engendering Song up of newspaper cartoonists and as the greatest of the early animators McCay's masterpiece is the epic Little Nemo This is a great book about the history of the comic from the early part of the 20th century Extensive