Information AboutLittle Nemo |
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| american comic strips | |
| comic strips started in the 1900s | |
| comics characters | |
| nemo, little | |
| fantasy comics | |
| dreaming and fiction | |
| blackthorne publishing titles | |
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Little Nemo is the main Fictional Character in a series of weekly Comic Strip s by Winsor McCay ( 1871 - 1934 ) that appeared in the '' New York Herald '' and William Randolph Hearst 's '' New York American '' newspapers from October 15 , 1905 – April 23 , 1911 and April 30 1911– 1913 ; respectively. The strip was first called ''Little Nemo in Slumberland'' and then ''In the Land of Wonderful Dreams'' when it changed papers. A brief revival of the title occurred from 1924-27. COMIC STRIP Although a comic strip, it was far from a simple children's , where he had been summoned by King Morpheus , to be the "playmate" of his daughter, the Princess . Sometime during early , The Imp , the Candy Kid and Santa Claus as well as the Princess and King Morpheus. The "Slumberland" of the title soon acquired a double meaning, referring not only to Morpheus's fairy kingdom, but to the state of sleep itself: Nemo would have dream-adventures in other imaginary lands, on the Moon and Mars, and in our own "real" world, made fantastic by the dream-state. The strip was not a great popular success in its time. Most readers preferred the slapstick antics of such strips as '' Katzenjammer Kids '', '' Happy Hooligan '', and '' Buster Brown '' to the surreal fantasy of ''Nemo'', and other comic strips like '' Krazy Kat ''. However, during the late 20th century and early 21st century, the strip received more recognition. Among the most noticeable of its qualities were its intricate visual style—often with high levels of background detail—its vivid colours, fast pace of movement from panel to panel and the huge variety of strange characters and scenery. Certain episodes of the strip are particularly famous. Any list of these would have to include the Night of the Living Houses (said to be the first comic strip to enter the collection of the Louvre ) where Nemo and a friend are chased down a city street by a gang of tenement houses on legs; the Walking Bed, where Nemo and Flip ride over the rooftops on the increasingly long limbs of Nemo's bed (see illustration); and the Befuddle Hall sequence, where Nemo and his friends attempt to find their way out of a funhouse environment of a Beaux Arts interior turned topsy-turvy. McCay's mastery of perspective, and the extreme elegance of his line work, make his visions graphically wondrous. The eccentric dialogue is delivered in a dreamy deadpan, and often appears to be hastily jammed into tiny word balloons that can scarcely contain it. A typical line: "Whoever named this place Befuddle Hall knew his business! I am certainly befuddled." The strips, along with most of the rest of McCay's works, fell into the Public Domain worldwide on January 1 , 2005 , 70 years after McCay's death (see Copyright and the EU's Directive Harmonizing The Term Of Copyright Protection for details). The complete set of ''Little Nemo'' strips is available in a single volume from Taschen: ''Little Nemo 1905-1914'' (ISBN 3-8228-6300-9), leaving out only the later revival from the 1920s. 110 of the most famous strips have been reprinted in their original size and colors in the 2005 collection ''Little Nemo in Slumberland, So Many Splendid Sundays'', an impressive 16x21 inch hardcover book from Sunday Press Books. |
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