This time around, we are including two
cartoon strips that was published on
Tuesday, 14th October 1904 and 23rd
November 1904, under the series called
“Dream of the rarebit fiend”. These
cartoon strips were created by Zenas
Winsor McCay (c. 1867–1871 – July
26, 1934), an American cartoonist and
animator. He is best known for the comic
strip Little Nemo (1905–1914; 1924–1926) and the animated film
Gertie the Dinosaur (1914). For contractual reasons, he worked
under the pen name Silas on the comic strip Dream of the Rarebit
Fiend.
From a young age, McCay was a quick, prolific, and technically
dextrous artist. He started his professional career making posters
and performing for dime museums, and began illustrating
newspapers and magazines in 1898. He joined the New York
Herald in 1903, where he created popular comic strips such as
Little Sammy Sneeze and Dream of the Rarebit Fiend. In 1905,
his signature strip Little Nemo in Slumberland debuted, a fantasy
strip in an Art Nouveau style, about a young boy and his
adventurous dreams. The strip demonstrated McCay's strong
graphic sense and mastery of colour and linear perspective.
McCay experimented with the formal elements of the comic strip
page, arranging and sizing panels to increase impact and enhance
elements of the narrative. McCay also produced numerous
detailed editorial cartoons and was a popular performer of chalk
talks on the vaudeville circuit.
His comic strip work has influenced generations of cartoonists and
illustrators.
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