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. Check out the full campaign and further details here.Meet Little Nemo, a diminutive hero of comic narrative, but one of the greatest dream voyagers of the 20th century. StudioComix Press are offering up this new printing in two soft back volumes plus additional perks, with CA$120 getting you the books downloadable copies of all the Little Nemo in Slumberland strips. McCay’s work has influenced virtually every other comic creator in the medium.įor me, this is a must-have book for any serious comic book aficionado and promises countless hours of entertainment as you’ll find yourselves transfixed to each page. It is widely regarded as McCay’s masterpiece for its experiments with the comics form, its use of color, the varying size and shape of its panels, panoramic perspectives, architectural detail, and sheer imagination. Little Nemo in Slumberlanddepicted the title character having fantastic dreams that were interrupted by his waking up in the final panel. McCay then returned to the New York Herald-Tribune when he revived the strip under its original title and where it ran from 1924 until its last appearance in early 1927.

It was renamed In the Land of Wonderful Dreams when McCay took it to William Randolph Hearst’s New York American, where it ran from 1911 until 1914. Little Nemo in Slumberland first ran in the New York Herald from 1905 until 1911. But, that’s been out of print for a good few years, so where’s a new generation of fans meant to look? Well, maybe over on Kickstarter where a more modest-sized printing currently being offered up to the discerning reader and one that comes with added extras, depending on what you can afford.

One of my prize possessions across my whole comic book collection has always been my hardback oversized collection of the complete Little Nemo In Slumberland Book by Winsor McCay published by Taschen Books.

The complete little nemo