Winsor McCay (1869-1934), an ‘artist extraordinaire’ of New York, imagined, dreamed up, and drew the most complex flying machines, giant elephants, and visualized space and planets like no other painter or cartoonist before him ever dared to. While we follow Little Nemo, we’d better have a solid table ready to place our edition, since on more than 560 pages the superb printing quality finally resulted in a massive book of more than 18 lbs that comes in the awesome dimensions of 3.2 x 15 x 19.8 inches.

It is plain to see why the colored episodes immediately caught the reader’s attention with their surreal ideas, art deco environments and bright colors in newspaper size when they were published in the early years of the last century.Ĭompared to other comics of the time, Little Nemo enjoyed the luxurious color full page space of the Sunday editions, while most other comics were limited to just a black-and-white strip (or a tier) of a few single pictures in the ordinary daily editions. So what you get in this edition is the complete Little Nemo in Slumberland (27) as well as Little Nemo in the Land of Wonderful Dreams (1911-1914), when McCay was under contract from another newspaper.

Who, w hile asleep, imagines and dreams his way through various scenarios on different planets, while he encounters the strangest of all creatures, friends, machines and antagonists. Winsor McCay’s inventions of perspective, his psychedelic and fantastic renderings of breath-taking strange environments are presented here for the first time ever in the complete edition containing every (really every!) 549 episodes of Little Nemo.

Not just comic art fans but any student of popular culture or architecture will be delighted by this edition.

The complete little nemo in slumberland