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  • ISBN: 1933160063
  • Category: Humor
  • Author: Winsor McCay
  • Subcategory: Humor
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  • Language: English
  • Publisher: Checker Book Publishing Group (September 6, 2006)
  • Pages: 200 pages
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  • Rating: 4.9
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Winsor McCay has had "Little Nemo in Slumberland" reprinted in full colour in multiple volumes over the past several years, but his earlier and less well known work hasn't been served quite as well.

Winsor McCay has had "Little Nemo in Slumberland" reprinted in full colour in multiple volumes over the past several years, but his earlier and less well known work hasn't been served quite as well. Checker Book Publishing Group has tried to remedy that, and this book is valuable for the sheer amount of material that it covers.

Zenas Winsor McCay (c. 1866–71 – July 26, 1934) was an American cartoonist and animator. He is best known for the comic strip Little Nemo (1905–14; 1924–26) and the animated film Gertie the Dinosaur (1914)

Zenas Winsor McCay (c. He is best known for the comic strip Little Nemo (1905–14; 1924–26) and the animated film Gertie the Dinosaur (1914). For contractual reasons, he worked under the pen name Silas on the comic strip Dream of the Rarebit Fiend. From a young age, McCay was a quick, prolific, and technically dextrous artist.

Winsor McCay: Early Works. has been added to your Cart. Book 3 of 10 in the Early Works- Winsor McCay Series. As with the other volumes from Checker, the reproduction quality varies from page to page and is sometimes rather poor, but this volume suffers less than most, I think. Unfortunately the quality suffers the most in the opening section of Rarebits which is some of the better content.

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McCay's enthusiasm and energy for his vocation infected every panel he drew. As popular as McCay was, his work was poorly preserved, and later generations have been unable learn about this cartooning legend. Checker is proud to bring McCay's work back into the public eye. With an unflagging work ethic, he drew thousands of cartoons and illustrations that appeared in newspapers around the country and gained him nationwide fame. См. также: Комиксы. Issue Number: Vol. 08 Publisher: Checker Book Publishing Group Cover: August 2006, 1. 5 Origin: United States, English Format: Black & White, Trade Paperback, 200 pages. Winsor McCay: Early Works Vol. 08. Paperback, Diamond Comic Distributors, 2005, ISBN 1933160063 Winsor McCay: Early Works Volume 8 (Winsor McCay: Early Works). Winsor McCay: Early Works. Checker Book Publishing Group, Diamond Comic Distributors.

These strips, from earlier in McCay's career, show him experimenting with different styles of cartooning, including the last-panel repetition that he used extensively in "Dream of the Rarebit Fiend" and "Little Nemo in Slumberland"

Winsor McCay (September 26 1867(?) – July 26 1934) was an American cartoonist and animator. 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

Winsor McCay (September 26 1867(?) – July 26 1934) was an American cartoonist and animator. 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 two best-known creations are the newspaper comic strip "Little Nemo in Slumberland", which ran from 1905 to 1914, and the animated cartoon "Gertie the Dinosaur", which he created in 1914.

McCay's enthusiasm and energy for his vocation infected every panel he drew. With an unflagging work ethic, he drew thousands of cartoons and illustrations that appeared in newspapers around the country and gained him nationwide fame. As popular as McCay was, his work was poorly preserved, and later generations have been unable learn about this cartooning legend. Checker is proud to bring McCay's work back into the public eye.
Reviews about Winsor McCay: Early Works Volume 8 (2):
Love Me
Continuing their lackluster series of McCay reprints, Checker has here at least given us a generous helping of McCay's more inventive work - about 80 pages of Rarebit Fiend (including, on p. 38, a strip whose original artwork can be seen in the San Francisco Comic art Museum). This is followed by about 20 pages of mostly uninteresting editorial and advertising work (though there are a couple of real gems in here). We then get 60+ pages of Poor Jake and 20 or so of Pilgrim's Progress. Neither of these strips is particularly interesting to me.

As usual, the reproduction quality is spotty and many of the better images have bees severely reduced in order to fit the pages. Although it does have a good selection of Rarebit Fiend strips, there are now much better collections of available here and here

If your interest is in the editorial cartoons (many of which are fascinating and exquisite) you are beter off with Daydreams and Nightmares or the Canemaker book on McCay as these have much better reproductions (if also a smaller selection)

Really for completists only.
Groll
It can't be easy to sell Winsor McCay. Afterall, McCay was doing his work long before the greats of Comic's Golden Age started making their mark. Heck, in most cases, even before they were born. When one considers that the work in this volume is a hundred years old it's nearly hard to fathom. While the McCay market may be a niche market, he still deserves a place among the great pioneers of cartooning, a very important place if truth be told.

Checker Books continues its long running series presenting the cartoonist's non-Little Nemo in Slumberland work. This eighth volume includes more of McCay's other strips such as Dream of the Rarebit Fiend, Poor Jake, Pilgrim's Progress, as well as editorial cartoons and even some of his cigarette advertisements. It's quite an eclectic sampling. Dream of the Rarebit fiend ran from 1904 - 1911 in the New York Evening Telegram. The formula is simple: someone eats a late night snack of Welsh Rarebit which brings on bizarre, often humorous dreams which always end in the subject swearing to never eat Rarebit again.

Rarebit is a spicy cheese on toast concoction that was a popular British snack. I'd guess I might compare it to eating a late night burrito from a convenience store these days. The dream sequences are sometimes funny, sometimes horrific, and sometimes quite...hallucinogenic, and one wonders was it Rarebit they ate or something else! Characters see things like ballerinas riding flying donkeys, and a stable full of piglets crowding their way into bed. Then there is a strip depicting a black woman, speaking in stereotypical black slang, who dreams of using bleach to make herself a white society woman. It's painfully racist but one does have to take into account the era these strips were done and I applaud Checker for including the strip as it is an important look at our culture through hundred year-old looking glass.

McCay's ads for Lucky Strike cigarettes are a scream as they boldly proclaim that they've "removed the prejudice against cigarettes" by making them safer to the smoker. It seems little has changed with the tobacco industry in the last century.

McCay seemed to have a strong handle on the mood of America that shows up in his editorials, which I personally find to be some of his finest work. McCay pulled no punches and he could easily carry his weight with any modern day editorial cartoonist.

For those with a love of cartooning and an appreciation of its history and roots, I cannot recommend Checkers Winsor McCay series any more robustly.

Reviewed by Tim Janson

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