Return to Slumberland with Little Nemo
Winsor McCay published his first Little Nemo cartoon a century ago, on Oct. 15, 1905, in The New York Herald. The first panel shows a little boy in a nightshirt sitting up in bed staring at a clownish figure before him. The narration says: "Little Nemo had just fallen asleep when an Oomp appeared, who said, 'You are requested to appear before his majesty, Morpheus of Slumberland.' " The Oomp then presents Nemo with Somnus, a gentle horse to ride into Slumberland. And thus, a masterpiece was born.Now, at long last, it has been reborn. Peter Maresca has restored and collected the very best of the classic Little Nemo in Slumberland Sunday comic strips from 1905-1910 in a magnificent 120-page limited edition hardcover subtitled So Many Splendid Sundays - which reproduces McCay's timeless tales at full size (16"x21").
It's been a rather extraordinary year for extraordinary books, but this easily ranks among my Top Three of the year (alongside The Stanley Kubrick Archives and The Complete Calvin and Hobbes).
posted by Paul at 9:55 PM [Permalink]
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I too got a copy of the Kubrick Archives about 3 months ago and am still carefully reading it, caressing its silky pages and proudly showing its magnificence off to friends. It's the movie book of the year, no doubt It's hard to think of another director who could offer such a detailed peek behind the obsession, and who would be interesting enough for that kind of treatment.
robogeek is one of my fav. blogs by the way
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