The most comprehensive collection of the landmark comic strip by the legendary Winsor McCay. This is the most comprehensive collection ever of the material.
Bonus promotional material includes playbills, posters, Little Nemo merchandise pics and more. In addition, another first: All forty-three episodes of McCay’s first color Sunday feature, Tales of the Jungle Imps, As published in the Cincinnati Enquirer in 1903. Included here is every known episode from October 13th, 1905, the very first, until August 15, 1909, never before published in complete collected form. Two large format soft covers which encompass the entire run of Little Nemo in the first part of the 20th century including the short lived return of the strip in the late teens and twenties. This new set of softcover editions represents a collection never equaled before or since in its comprehensiveness. What began as a labor of love for me as a comic fan and originally published in a limited edition hardcover collection of the entire run of Little Nemo in Slumberland.
Winsor McCay was an unparalleled genius who spawned an entire sub-culture that grew into something that now pervades the worldwide culture of comic books and cartoons. At once an adventure story, visual delight, and piece of cultural history, this publication is a tremendous monument to one of the most innovative pioneers and one of the most intrepid explorers of comic history.The masterpiece works of Winsor McCay LITTLE NEMO IN SLUMBERLAND collected in two affordable editions. media and entertainment industry, and explores the immense art historical value of McCay's dream narrative. In the illustrated accompanying volume, art historian and comics expert Alexander Braun places Winsor McCay's life and work within the cultural history of the U.S. The master creation of Winsor McCay (1869 1934), restless sleeper Nemo inspired generations of artists with his weekly adventures from bed to Slumberland, a realm of colorful companions, psychedelic scenery, and thrilling escapades.Nemo's creator Winsor McCay was a founding figure in the modern American entertainment industry, above all with his revolutionary comics, which set standards for panel layout and storytelling technique, timing and pacing, and architectural and other detail that left an inestimable influence on subsequent artists, including Robert Crumb and Federico Fellini.TASCHEN's sumptuous Winsor McCay: The Complete Little Nemo 1905 1927 collects, for the very first time, and in full, glorious color, all 549 episodes of Little Nemo. Adventures in pajamasThe complete Little Nemo compilation Meet Little Nemo, a diminutive hero of comic narrative, but one of the greatest dream voyagers of the 20th century.
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