The most comprehensive collection of the landmark comic strip by the legendary Winsor McCay. The first in a full color oversized collection of the signature strip from America's greatest comic illustrator of all time. It includes rare Nemo promo art, the series that featured many of Nemo's characters first " Tales of The Jungle Imp" in color, and that wonderful New strip from 1905-1909.
Was an American cartoonist and animator, best known for the comic strip Little Nemo (begun 1905) and the animated cartoon Gertie the Dinosaur (1914). For legal reasons, he worked under the pen name Silas on the comic strip Dream of the Rarebit Fiend. A prolific artist, McCay's pioneering early animated films far outshone the work of his contemporaries, and set a standard followed by Walt Disney and others in later decades. His comic strip work has influenced generations of artists, including creators such as William Joyce, André LeBlanc, Moebius, Maurice Sendak, Chris Ware and Bill Watterson.
The only improvement I would wish for this book is if it were larger. Like, ten feet tall would be a good size. Also, if I could physically enter the book in some way and not have to return to my former life, that would be appreciated as well.
This comic strip would be considered a stunning achievement in art today, let alone over a hundred years ago… but it is real hard to get over the visceral racism. Read it from an art-history perspective, but definitely not for children.
En estas historietas acompañamos al pequeño Nemo en aventuras que suceden en sus sueños mientras duerme.
La dinámica de las historias suele ser que el Rey Morfeo pide a diferentes personas que le lleven ante su presencia a Nemo para que conozca a la Princesa que está triste por no poder conocerle.
Estas historietas son del año 1905-1906, están dibujadas a todo color y se nota la influencia del cine de Melies y de las historias como "Peter Pan" de James Mathew Barry o "Veinte mil leguas de viaje submarino" de Julio Verne.
Cada historieta dura una página y debajo de cada viñeta se va explicando la situación que acontece a Nemo.
Hay que decir que hay bastante dificultad para leer el texto, se entiende que en la época no disponían de los recursos digitales actuales y por lo tanto los bocadillos y explicaciones suelen tener una letra muy pequeñita.
Por otro lado algunas de las historietas actualmente no serían políticamente correctas ya que en varias ocasiones el padre del pequeño Nemo le despierta de los sueños con un guantazo o amenaza con darle una paliza si vuelve a gritar en sueños. Así como al único personaje racializado se le trata de "enemigo" con un diseño esteotipado y donde se le trata de tonto y se le engaña.
En general este cómic es un yayo de las historietas y se lo recomiendo a todas aquellas personas, independientemente de la edad, que disfruten con el género y quieran conocer otros ámbitos.
This book served as my introduction to McCay's Little Nemo, and I was blown away by the details of the strip. I felt the introduction did not set up the book very well, and the strip is wearisome to read for long periods of time, but it's also absolutely amazing A-R-T.
Physically Beautiful Comic Strip! I'd read about this for ages, and saw it in the of the Library. I do feel like I'm reading something all at once that should be read in bits, but all and all it is magic.
Parts of this collection really grabbed me and I was completely transfixed with Little Nemo and his world. The only reason it's a three is because there's a lot of filler so to speak, although the art was fantastical all throughout.
Brilliant color and design. The only problem is that I had to use a magnifying glass to read the strips. My library has only the first volume - I wish I owned the complete set.