McCay’s first comic didn’t work but he found success quickly enough, with Little Sammy Sneeze, before creating his two most celebrated comic strips less than a year apart, Dream of the Rarebit Fiend and Little Nemo in Slumberland.īoth of them were about nocturnal adventures. Newspapers comics were also the main attractions for publishers like James Gordon Bennett or his today most famous concurrent William Randolph Hearst at the New York Journal. McCay was dreaming of having his own comic strip, a form of art that was in its earliest stage of development and, in consequence, where everything was possible.

But it was in Telegram that he began experimenting with the comic strip form: a sequential panel called “Hubby Goes Shopping with the Usual Results” was published on December 24, 1903.

He came to work for publisher James Gordon Bennett in 1903 where he was doing caricatures of officeholders. Considered a masterpiece, it shows the young Nemo atop his bed which had grown crazy long legs, and was walking among buildings.Īt this stage, creator Winsor McCay was working for the New York Herald for a few years and had already produced many illustrations and comic strips. One of the most famous Little Nemo in Slumberland comic strips today was published in July 1908. Made with rich, well-made details, this statue is an authentic gift for anyone who loves the history of comic books and anyone who wants to own a unique, once-in-a-lifetime piece of it.Little Nemo in Slumberland, New York Herald, January 7, 1906 Here we see Nemo at his usual “awakening”, bringing him back to the real world, but supported by one of his best “travelling companions” in the world of dreams who is still smiling from his adventures. His creator, Winsor McCay, was not just a genius illustrator in the strict sense, but also the person who made a fully-fledged art out of sequential narration. Here, for the first time, is a 3D homage to a character who unquestionably represents the “birth” of the comic as we understand it today.

And once again, Infinite Statue has created the first significant tribute to the man who actually invented the art of the Comic. He is, to all intents and purposes, considered the “father” of the art of the Comic Strip or Sequential Art par excellence: Winsor McCay, with his character of Nemo, paved the way for all the cartoonists who came in later years. Little Nemo debuted on the New York Herald on October 15, 1905, his drawings have influenced several generations of cartoonists in later years, of fact Little Nemo is still considered an example of sequential art for anyone who wants to engage in the comics world. Harvery has called Winsor McCay 'the first original genius of the comic strip medium' and his masterpiece “Little Nemo in Slumberland” it can be considered the first and most important character in the world of comics.

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