![]() ![]() LC-DIG-ppmsca-03302 (digital file from original).Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C. 183-84 ljrġ drawing on bristol board : India ink over graphite and blue pencil underdrawing 72.0 x 57.2 cm. Source: 100 years of American newspaper comics, p. All rights reserved.įorms part of: Art Wood Collection of Caricature and Cartoon (Library of Congress). In 1911, McCay left the Herald to work for William Randolph Hearst, but before he left, Little Nemo toured all the cities of America where the comic strip was published.Ĭopyright 1910 by The New York Herald Co. The strip was notable for its delicate drawings, fantastic architecture, and brilliant use of color. Little Nemo, first published by Winsor McCay in October 1905 in The New York Herald, featured a small boy who traveled in his dreams each night to another world, Slumberland, where he had fabulous adventures. ![]() As usual, Little Nemo awakens in the morning in his own bed. They fly up the Hudson River, but land in the Sing Sing Penitentiary by mistake. ![]() They are intercepted by customs agents and then decide to land at West Point instead of New York Harbor.
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