I love the animated yet stilted dialogue, and McCay is sometimes delightfully witty in a dry way. This volume is not the best, but it's still very very good.Ī lot of people, including Bill Watterson (Calvin & Hobbes you can also see a LOT of Nemo influence when you compare the two) and all sorts of scholars, consider the dialogue to be the weakest point of Little Nemo, an incidental addition that isn't even hardly worth reading. He begins with the narrative text squeezed into the bottom of each panel, then tries putting it all at the beginning, then, thankfully, abandons it entirely. 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.You can watch McCay experimenting and developing Little Nemo in this book. media and entertainment industry, and explores the immense art historical value of McCay’s dream narrative. In the illustrated essay, art historian and comics expert Alexander Braun places Winsor McCay’s life and work within the cultural history of the U.S. TASCHEN’s sumptuous Winsor McCay – The Complete Little Nemo collects, in full, glorious color, all 549 episodes of Little Nemo. 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. 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. Meet Little Nemo, a diminutive hero of comic narrative, but one of the greatest dream voyagers of the 20th century.
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