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Dutiful Dreamer

By Jimmy Johnson


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Here’s another Sunday from 10 years ago. So, “Little Nemo in Slumberland” would be 110 years old this year. Winsor McCay was one of the greatest comic strip artists of all time, not to mention one of the first. I wouldn’t go so far as to say it’s been downhill ever since, but no one has ever surpassed McCay in drawing, scripting, dialog, creativeness, pacing… the list goes on. “Little Nemo” only ran on Sundays, beginning in The New York Herald in 1905. In the day, Sunday funnies were the new technological marvel. Seriously. Many cartoonists then were little more than overworked and underpaid cogs in a giant newspaper machine, but the popular ones such as McCay and Rudolph Dirks and Richard Outcault became wealthy celebrities. Outcault pretty much invented the art form in 1895 with “Down in Hogan’s Alley” and later invented the modern comic strip with “Buster Brown.”

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78 responses to “Dutiful Dreamer”

  1. sandcastler™ Avatar
    sandcastler™

    USMA, USRA, go Army! Grads who latter in life embrace the belief that cadet life was a positive experience are called Gray Hogs by those who see it differently.

  2. Jackie Monies Avatar
    Jackie Monies

    Good, I concur. Most people I grew up with went to military academies often in high school or even earlier, many went on to academies if they could in college or ROTC at the least. I still have many friends I love who would concur as well.

  3. sandcastler™ Avatar
    sandcastler™

    For the Village cat people,all others disregard this link for you won’t get it.

    http://thoughtcatalog.com/de-elizabeth/2015/01/10-signs-your-cat-owns-you-and-not-the-other-way-around/