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Original Title:	Little Nemo 1905-1914
ISBN:	3822863009 (ISBN13: 9783822863008)
Edition Language:	English

Little Nemo: 1905-1914

Winsor McCay

Hardcover | Pages: 432 pages

Rating: 4.44 | 1894 Users | 43 Reviews

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Title	:	Little Nemo: 1905-1914
Author	:	Winsor McCay
Book Format	:	Hardcover
Book Edition	:	Deluxe Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 432 pages
Published	:	April 1st 2000 by Evergreen Taschen (first published January 1st 2000)
Categories	:	Sequential Art. Comics. Graphic Novels. Fantasy. Art. Classics. Graphic Novels Comics

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Little Nemo: 1905-1914 contains every Little Nemo newspaper strip from its prime era.

I first encountered Little Nemo in a NES game about a thousand years ago. Since then, everyone from Bill Watterson to Moebius cites him as an influence. I found this on the cheap and decided to dive in.

First off, this book is awkward as hell to read. It's coffee table sized and the print isn't very easy to read. While not exactly small, the font is really understated. Skinny, maybe? Whatever the opposite of bold is. It strained my eyes enough to give me a headache until I learned to limit myself to ten pages at a time. Also, it took me a few minutes to get used to the captions being underneath the panels rather than above. Eventually, McCay dispensed with the captions all together, making for a smoother read.

Once I got used to reading it, I started digging Little Nemo right away. Some bizarre stuff happens right off the bat and I'm having a hard time imaging a Sunday paper featuring Little Nemo in the comics section, what with mushroom forests, ostriches with twenty-foot legs, and creepy ass clowns all over the place.

The stories are one-shots at first but gradually evolve into a linked series with Nemo finally entering Slumberland and meeting the Princess. His arch-nemesis, a kid who is a stogie-smoking clown named Flip, starts ruining Nemo's good time at every turn. They eventually become friends but Flip is still an asshole. Since this was a Sunday strip, some of the stories go on for months and months.

The art is the star of the show here, which is a good thing because old Winsor wrote some wooden-ass dialogue. The lettering looks like Winsor drew the word balloons first and then contorted the dialogue to fit into them. Not only that, every page ends with Nemo waking up. Anyway, Winsor's art style is rooted in illustration and political cartoons, making it way more detailed than I originally thought. There are so many fine lines and tiny details that I have no problem believing some pages took about a week to do. Also, the man draws a mean hippopotamus.

The comic strip was still in its infancy at this point but Winsor McCay was doing some interesting stuff, like varying panel sizes and drawing extremely intricate backgrounds. His use of perspective was light years ahead of its time. I keep forgetting this strip appeared in the newspaper. Imagine a time when a single comic could take up the entire page.




Artistically, I'd say the run through Befuddle Hall, a bizarre series of upside, sideways, and perspective warping rooms was the highlight of the first few years. From there, Nemo experiences a series of stories that start in his bed instead of Slumberland, Winsor mixing up the formula.



You can definitely tell how Winsor McCay's artwork influenced people like Moebius with his clean lines and hyper-detailed backgrounds. You can also see how the subject matter inspired Bill Watterson in Calvin's daydreams, although Calvin never went through the things Nemo went through, like airship rides, polar wastelands and surrealist architecture. Some of the edifices Nemo explores would be right at home in a Steve Ditko Doctor Strange tale.

While the writing leaves something to be desired, Little Nemo is a fascinating look at comics in their embryonic form. The art holds up surprisingly well and the subject matter is timeless. I'll be cracking open this behemoth periodically for years to come. 4 out of 5 stars.

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Ratings: 4.44 From 1894 Users | 43 Reviews

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I DIE FOR THIS BOOK. ungh.

This edition contains the entire Little Nemo series running from 1905 through 1914 so it is rather imposing. But whether you read this one or another, everyone ought to read something of the Little Nemo series.Little Nemo is a young lad who dreams through the entire cartoon until the last panel, where he routinely falls out of bed and wakes up his parents (who then comment on how often he falls out or tell him to go back to sleep - one time they even suggest they should build a fence around his

This book is ever so lively, the pictures are breathtaking. The storyline allows a lot of fantasy, both in composing and in reading the stories. Although the gag of the comic stays the same for years, it always manages a chuckle. Such a iconic piece of work!

Little Nemo lacks punch. While his art is not formulaic, it does not do much to create ongoing interest. Modern cartoonists are forced to compete for limited space and maintain a certain level of suspense. I can see how these artists look back on McCay's body of work and covet the larger canvas and artistic freedom that he had in 1906, but it can be very bland for long stretches.

Quite trip. I grew up with these, then lost track of them until I was in my mid-20s, when they blew my mind with the level of ingenuity, imagination, and early world-building without apology. There are more than a few characterizations here that are quite un-PC, yet to throw the collection out for those would mean throwing out most of literature and political discourse. I choose to focus on the wonderful tension he creates by throwing Nemo and the reader into a world that is at times

Not for everyone as it is very old and culturally removed. At the same time this is for everyone because Winsor's drawings a phenominal and his imagination is in its own league.Each comic follows the dream and the awakening of the title character.

Little Nemo is full of beautiful images and imaginative scenes.