Winsor McCay « The Hooded Utilitarian

#6: <em>Little Nemo in Slumberland</em>, Winsor McCay

August 2, 2011
By Shaenon Garrity
Best Comics Poll, Best Comics Poll Top Ten
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#6: Little Nemo in Slumberland, Winsor McCay

Winsor McCay spoke the saddest and greatest last words of any cartoonist.

March 7, 2011
By Alex Buchet
Blog, Columns
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Strange Windows: A Master at the Dawn

When a new art form appears, how often does it spawn a master craftsman at or near the beginning of its existence? Surprisingly often.

September 6, 2010
By Alex Buchet
Columns, Draw Buildings, Build Drawings, Series
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Strange Windows: Draw Buildings, Build Drawings (part 1)

Art by Nicolas de Crecy Until January 2 2011, the official French museum of architecture – La Cité de l’Architecture et du Patrimoine — is hosting an exhibition on comics and architecture, Archi et BD: La Ville Dessinée in the Palais de Chaillot, Paris. The museum, in the red square, as seen from the [...]

March 30, 2009
By Noah Berlatsky
Blog
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Eternal Appetite

This review originally ran in the Comics Journal. Little Sammy SneezeWinsor McCaySunday Press If you were a Freudian, you’d have to wonder when Winsor McCay was weaned. Indeed, his work is so obsessively and predictably orally fixated that you almost wonder if maybe he wasn’t. In each episode, his longest running strip, The Dream of [...]

August 12, 2008
By Noah Berlatsky
Blog
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The Butt of the Dream

This review originally appeared in The Comics Journal Winsor McCay occupies roughly the same place in comics as Shakespeare does in English literature. A crowd-pleasing, intensely accessible entertainer, he is also an artists’ artist, admired by creators in every corner of the medium, from Art Spiegelman to Johnny Ryan, Neil Gaiman to Charles Schulz, Frank [...]