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Little Nemo: Dream Another Dream
WINNER OF 2 EISNER AWARDS. Winsor McCay was perhaps the greatest cartoonist of all time, and the Sunday newspaper strip Little Nemo in Slumberland was his greatest creation. Now, a century later, over 100 of the world's finest cartoonists and illustrators have paid tribute to the master and his masterpiece by creating new Little Nemo strips at their original broadsheet newspaper size (16" x 21"), following their own voices down paths lit by McCay. Contributors include Paul Pope, Bill Sienkiewicz, Peter Bagge, Farel Dalrymple, Nate Powell, David Mack, Jeremy Bastian, John Cassaday, Jim Rugg, Michael Allred, Scott Morse, Yuko Shimizu, David Petersen, J.G. Jones, Denis Kitchen, Stephen Bissette, Ronald Wimberly, P. Craig Russell, Gabriel Bá and Fábio Moon, among many others.
144 pages, Hardcover
First published January 1, 2014
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Andrew Carl
18 books21 followersAndrew Carl is an Eisner & Harvey Award-winning editor & writer for comics and co-founder of Locust Moon Press. He is currently based in San Francisco.
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February 9, 2015
A graphic experience that can't be digitized.... dozens of today's most innovative comic artists pay tribute to, emulate, and comment on Winsor McCay's cornerstone strip in pages the size of 1910 newspaper funnies. Some of the artists update McCay's work and some express their own preoccupations in the language of dreams. I found about 3/4 of the work here to be breathtaking, a high percentage for a project of such ambition and so much potential for deadly pretension. If I have a criticism, it's that the high cost for production of a work of comic art -- the production values and reproduction are first rate -- like this will keep it out of the hands of so many people who would love it.
April 11, 2023
2015 Eisner Award winner - Best Anthology (edited by Josh O'Neill, Andrew Carl, and Chris Stevens)
2015 Eisner Award winner - Best Publication Design (designed by Jim Rugg)
This is one of the most beautiful books I own. The scope of artwork is astounding, from some of the best artists around. The oversized volume allows the art to be seen in all its glory. Winsor McCay would be proud of the way his creation is being honored.
2015 Eisner Award winner - Best Publication Design (designed by Jim Rugg)
This is one of the most beautiful books I own. The scope of artwork is astounding, from some of the best artists around. The oversized volume allows the art to be seen in all its glory. Winsor McCay would be proud of the way his creation is being honored.
November 29, 2014
This book is 2' by 3' feet when opened and features wildly imaginative worlds drawn by over 100 of the best artists working today.
January 30, 2016
This is a tribute book in honor of Winsor McCay featuring work from cartoonists all over the world. The artists contributed one or two pages of work in imitation of McCay's original one-page newprint comics. The new works are often ingenious. Like McCay the new cartoonists toy with the realm between dreams and wakefulness. But they seem totally modern.
The colors range from black and white, to pastels, to vivid, glorious color. The pages are bright white and matte finished rather than glossy but of very high quality. They give the feel of newsprint without its murkiness; every illustration leaps off the page.
Perhaps the most surprising thing was to compare these new works with McCay's. The originals hold up remarkably well. Visually, McCay laid out much of the technical work of these newer artists. He was already experimenting with pacing and panel lengths and borderless sequences over 100 years ago.
Some updates were fascinating. One cartoonist had a grown up Nemo consigned to an insane asylum. Another tracked the lifetime of the dreaming Nemo through parenthood, old age and death, implying that life itself passed like a dream. Several cartoonists updated the look of Flip and Imp which are seen as racial stereotypes. My favorite one of these was by Cliff Chiang who has a realistically-drawn Imp (looking almost like a young Jean-Michel Basquiat) holding a plastic mask of the caricature face ("How silly," he says) and then Flip and Imp proceed to find Nemo's creator asleep at his board. The only thing better than dreams..." says Imp -- standing in for Cliff Chiang, the artist himself, "is making them come true." It sent shivers down my spine because there is probably no better summary of creativity and the creative process.
There is some very limited accompnying text, but you should not think of this as a major critical text or exploration of McCay in an academic sense.
The musing on McCay's work and meaning are almost all artistic. Each artist responding in his or her own way to the original works.
The Introduction of the book tries to make the case for McCay being a genius in comics form -- which I think is true -- but lacks adequate time to address the issue meaningfully.
The point about McCay's genius is more strongly made if you can read this book side-by-side with McCay's originals. When you compare each page, artist to artist, there is almost a dialogue going on.
Finally, this book is by far the largest physical book I have ever purchased. It is bigger than many coffee tables. It is bigger than most Taschen books. It even dwarfs the Taschen blockbuster "75 years of DC Comics" by Paul Levitz. I have no idea where I'm going to put this monstrosity. But I am happy to have the "problem"!!!
The colors range from black and white, to pastels, to vivid, glorious color. The pages are bright white and matte finished rather than glossy but of very high quality. They give the feel of newsprint without its murkiness; every illustration leaps off the page.
Perhaps the most surprising thing was to compare these new works with McCay's. The originals hold up remarkably well. Visually, McCay laid out much of the technical work of these newer artists. He was already experimenting with pacing and panel lengths and borderless sequences over 100 years ago.
Some updates were fascinating. One cartoonist had a grown up Nemo consigned to an insane asylum. Another tracked the lifetime of the dreaming Nemo through parenthood, old age and death, implying that life itself passed like a dream. Several cartoonists updated the look of Flip and Imp which are seen as racial stereotypes. My favorite one of these was by Cliff Chiang who has a realistically-drawn Imp (looking almost like a young Jean-Michel Basquiat) holding a plastic mask of the caricature face ("How silly," he says) and then Flip and Imp proceed to find Nemo's creator asleep at his board. The only thing better than dreams..." says Imp -- standing in for Cliff Chiang, the artist himself, "is making them come true." It sent shivers down my spine because there is probably no better summary of creativity and the creative process.
There is some very limited accompnying text, but you should not think of this as a major critical text or exploration of McCay in an academic sense.
The musing on McCay's work and meaning are almost all artistic. Each artist responding in his or her own way to the original works.
The Introduction of the book tries to make the case for McCay being a genius in comics form -- which I think is true -- but lacks adequate time to address the issue meaningfully.
The point about McCay's genius is more strongly made if you can read this book side-by-side with McCay's originals. When you compare each page, artist to artist, there is almost a dialogue going on.
Finally, this book is by far the largest physical book I have ever purchased. It is bigger than many coffee tables. It is bigger than most Taschen books. It even dwarfs the Taschen blockbuster "75 years of DC Comics" by Paul Levitz. I have no idea where I'm going to put this monstrosity. But I am happy to have the "problem"!!!
April 5, 2023
Spectacular
April 11, 2015
Gorgeously produced book and a wonderful tribute to Winsor McCay. It's impressive to look at, and the more colorful pages are extraordinary to behold. The more inspired comics (such as the gorgeous girl-on-a-pedestal pages by Stephen Halker or the remarkable and relatable architectural wanderings of Bishakh Som) soar at this size. The comics are, however, somewhat hit and miss, and I find a broadsheet book to be borderline unmanageable.
January 17, 2017
A stunning, extremely large-format collection of 1-2 page-length modern takes on the classic comic by a large collection of talented artists, who have made extremely good use of the extra real estate the volume's sheer size confers.
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