LITTLE NEMO IN SLUMBERLAND SO MANY SPLENDID SUNDAYS FREE DOWNLOAD

I've read all of the strips here before, some of them literally dozens of times; but seeing them again in this book was like discovering brand-new territory, an oasis in a desert you'd never before realized you inhabited. Over a century ago, someone already thought of this wicked and ground-breaking and edgy stories. Nov 26, Neil rated it it was amazing. A slumbering giant has stirred and walks among us--it's that hot new artist ,Winsor McCay. Other books in this series. I found the repetitiveness of the story a bit boring to read straight through.

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Maresca, in short, has done everything right here: Which makes it a real bargain. What a marvelous book! Just a moment while we sign you in to your Goodreads account. Other books in the series.

Little Nemo in Slumberland So Many Splendid Sundays : Sunday Comics 1905-1910

I'm going to be the mahy of a trendsetter, so, Nemo is on my baby name list. James rated it really liked it Jan 06, Be the first to ask a question about Little Nemo in Slumberland. Want to Read Currently Reading Read. Art Nouveau has always been an holistic concept where the artist likes to focus on the minutest detail with the same intensity of invention as he applies to sundaus whole, and clearly McCay was very much on that wavelength.

One of my all time favorite comics. Fans of comic art the world over owe him slumbreland debt of gratitude which none of us can ever repay individually. After explaining to my students that the original printed pages were about twice the size of the Dover edition, I've confessed that I truly envied the strip's original readers - especially the kids of, say, six years old - who had the privilege to almost literally "fall into" Nemo's world, who could have their entire field of vision filled with McCay's imagination.

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Carson rated it it was amazing Mar 06, Review quote "It took only a century, but Winsor McCay's comic-strip masterpiece -magical, surreal, and breathtakingly beautiful - has finally found a home in this oversize limited-edition volume. Settle into a comfortable chair, spread open the pages of this colossal book and be transported back to the glory days of the Sunday funnies!

I don't know where he got his ideas.

Little Nemo in Slumberland: So Many Splendid Sundays by Winsor McCay

But none of these collections, no matter how carefully selected sundaye produced they might be, have managed fully to convey one of the most impressive aspects of the comic: Many More Splendid Sundays', adding another Sunday pages to the collected in the slumberlnad volume.

McCay experiments with different arrangements of text and image--relying early on long captions that are a bit difficult to follow, in the strong middle years letting the images drive the story and using rather sparse talk bubbles, and in the late panels using longer talk bubbles to add more details to the plot.

Though socially acceptable in White American society at the start of the 20th century, they are still spiteful and destructive to humanity. You have reinvested the original reality of the art as inherent reproduction in ways slumbrland even the original readers couldn't quite have experienced, I think. Brilliant, brilliant artwork by Winsor McCay.

McCay's control over geometry in the service of creating depth in his linework is astonishing, as is the detail he crams into every panel. That says a lot, considering all the competition! Looking at McCay's drawings as if for the first time, I soon found myself wondering, "What other comic strips deserve to be showcased in this spectacular format? To be able splejdid linger over these images, absorbing all of the minute details in the drawing and the often amazing subtleties of the coloring, is a luxury I'd never dreamed of.

Description The only fully-resotred original, broadsheet-sized collection of Winsor MCay's masterpiece, widely regarded as the greatest comic strip of all time.

So Many Splendid Sundays! The "writing" in Nemoeven the lettering has been underestimated--it was always too hard to squint and absorb it even in so -called "oversized" reproductions.

Little Nemo in Slumberland: So Many Splendid Sundays!

While that part of that variety is finding the best way to tell stories in comics, each approach works well for conveying a certain kind of dream experience, which is perfect im each page ends with our protagonist waking up from an eventful night's sleep.

Goodreads is the world's largest site for readers with over 50 million reviews. Jun 01, Brian rated it liked it Shelves: Little Nemo in Slumberland: Peter's book slumbeland such an incredible artifact