Winsor McCay : His Life and Art
by John Canemaker
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Author: John CanemakerIntroduction: Maurice Sendak
Edition: Hardcover
Audio: English (Original Language); English (Unknown); English (Published)
Published: 2005-11-01
ISBN: 0810959410
Number of pages: 272
Publisher: "Harry N. Abrams, Inc."
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Book Review: A beautiful book
Summary: 5 Stars
If you don't know McCay's work, check out "Dreams of the Rarebit Fiend" and "Little Nemo in Slumberland" (not the movie). His art was visually compelling and psychologically savvy. Nemo was the more elaborate, with plenty of grand vistas and architectural wonders while Rarebit was visually spare, but more adult in content. All his work has a marvelously surreal sense about it, heightened by the detailed realism of his style - characters exit the confines of the strip or discuss the cartoonist's failings with the reader, landscapes and characters metamorphose into new configurations in ways that are perhaps best described as psychedelic.
This book presents a biography of this strange and gentle man as well as a generous sampling of his better work, including more obscure feaures and his stunning editorial cartoons (more sweeping panoramas and vast architectural wonders). Also recommended is the Fantagraphics volume "Daydreams and Nightmares" which offers up another good cross-section of his work (except Nemo, which is collected elsewhere).
A true American original, it's a shame more people don't know and appreciate his work.
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