Winsor McCay

(Zenas Winsor McKay)

American Artist & cartoonist

COMICS / DRAWINGS

Tales of the Jungle Imps by Felix Fiddle (1903)

Hand-colored drawings and painted (1903) 1st

Sunday colored feature

(Enquirer) 1st

comic strip he made

full-page illustrated stories are based on poems written by George Randolph

Chester about pixies and the imaginary animals they encounter

All these got him a job offer in NY which he took

. 5 of the original drawings were found (finder remains anonymous) until January 2006 none of the original drawings created by

McCay had been seen for more than a century.

Dreams of a Rarebit Fiend (1904)

Woman dreams that she’s given away

Masonic Secrets.

Ink/pen

the premise was that each strip would involve ordinary

folks in increasingly surreal events, until the final panel

revealed that the whole strip was a dream brought on by

the dreamer's having eaten too much Welsh RAREBIT

the night before.

A person finds himself trapped in an increasingly bizarre

adventure that turns out to be a nightmare caused by

indigestion

Featured fantasy art

a guy dreams that everyone in the

world comes down with “Elk Hornitis”

Ink/pen

these were his most successful strip and ran until 1911

Little Sammy Sneeze (1904)

Each set was six panels and always ended the same,

which was Little Sammy sneezing.

Ink/pen

Little Nemo in Slumberland (1905)

He is well-known for this series and ran til 1914

7 volumes of books for this series alone

He created an animation for it

About dreams (in this case Nemo’s dreams)

Always ended with Nemo waking up

Hand drawn with color and pen

ANIMATIONS

Little Nemo (1909)

• McCay did 4000 hand-drawings for this animation

• What he is most well-known for

• Based on the strip he created

Gertie the Dinosaur (1909)

classified by film and animation historians as the first cartoon character created especially for film to display a unique, realistic "personality"

1st

commercial successful animated cartoon

Gertie causes trouble and cries when she is scolded, and finally she gives McCay himself a ride on her back as he steps into the movie

picture

Hand drawn

Other animations/films

• How a mosquito operates (1909)

• The Sinking of the Lusitania (1917)

• The Flying House (1920) –last one

books

• 7 volumes for Little Nemo

• 8 volumes of his Early Works

• Little Nemo & Little Sammy- Sunday Press

• Daydreams & Nigtmares Fantagraphics

• The Best of Little Nemo series

• And many more

Links

• http://www.bpib.com/illustrat/mccay.htm

• http://lambiek.net/artists/m/mccay.htm

• http://www.imagesjournal.com/2004/reviews/winsormccay/text.htm

• http://cartoons.osu.edu/imps.html

• http://www.checkerbpg.com/books_vintage/Winsor_McCay_Bio2.html

• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Winsor_McCay#Works