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Little Nemo in Slumberland: Many More Splendid Sundays!: Volume 2

Winsor McCay

WINNER - Will Eisner Award, 2009: Best Archival Collection, Strips

In 2005, the publication of Little Nemo in Slumberland: So Many Splendid Sundays, the oversized deluxe reprint edition, marked the centennial of Winsor McCay's supreme graphic achievement. That book astounded the world of comics and art, becoming the most highly praised book of its kind.

This new collection presents more of those famed Sunday newspaper pages -- a "best of" collection from 1906 to 1924, with examples from all three incarnations of Little Nemo. This includes pages from the Hearst series, "In the Land of Wonderful Dreams," as well as pages from Little Nemo's return to the NY Herald in 1924. Presenting 110 more digitally-restored pages, presented in their original size and colors, including many pages that have never been reprinted before in any format. Plus, as a bonus, each book comes with a facsimile of a vintage Gertie the Dinosaur animation flip-book.

Book Details

  • Publisher: Fantagraphics Sunday Press Books
  • Publish Date: Sep 2nd, 2008
  • Pages: 128
  • Language: English
  • Edition: undefined - undefined
  • Dimensions: 21.00in - 16.20in - 0.90in - 7.80lb
  • EAN: 9780976888550
  • Categories: • Comics & Graphic Novels• Popular Culture• Form - Comic Strips & Cartoons

About the Author

McCay, Winsor: - Winsor McCay (1869-1934) was a pioneer of the comic strip (Little Nemo in Slumberland) and one of the founding fathers of animation (Gertie the Dinosaur). His work is enormously influential in both fields and directly inspired Walt Disney, Chuck Jones, Federico Fellini, Art Spiegelman, Carl Barks, Maurice Sendak, and Robert Crumb, to name just a few.
Goulart, Ron: - Ron Goulart was a historian and author of countless fiction and non-fiction books. His books on comics include The Adventurous Decade and The Funnies:100 years of American Comic Strips.
Maresca, Peter: - Peter Maresca is the multiple Eisner and Harvey Award-winning publisher of high-quality, full-sized collections of classic American newspaper strips. His Sunday Press books represent a high-water mark in the reproduction and preservation of American comic strips. Maresca changed the concept of comic reprints in 2005 with his original-sized Little Nemo in Slumberland: So Many Splendid Sundays, Winsor McCay's groundbreaking strip. He continued with Sundays with Walt & Skeezix (Frank King's Gasoline Alley), George Herriman's Krazy Kat, Chester Gould's Dick Tracy, and a dozen others. Maresca lives a relatively non-virtual life in Palo Alto, CA.

Praise for this book

"This second volume is every bit as charming and magic as the first." -- boingboing.net "boingboing.net"
Praise for the first volume in the centennial celebration:

"I've waited forever to see Nemo as it should be seen. It's just amazing!" -- Matt Groening "Matt Groening"