By: Heidi MacDonald,
on 11/9/2015
At this year's Comic Arts Brooklyn, two of comics most influential curators examined the legacy of Winsor McCay's LITTLE NEMO IN SLUMBERLAND and the development of comics, from the vulgar days of yore to the modern gentile shores.
By: Jerry Beck,
on 5/18/2015
By: Maryann Yin,
on 2/27/2015
The Society of Illustrators will host the “Little Nemo: Dream Another Dream” exhibit.
This program honors the work of the “Little Nemo in Slumberland” comic strip creator, Winsor McCay. The closing date has been scheduled for March 28th.
According to the organization’s website, this art show is “based on Locust Moon Press’ anthology Little Nemo: Dream Another Dream, many of the world’s finest cartoonists pay tribute to the master and his masterpiece by creating 118 new ‘Little Nemo’ strips, following their own voices down paths lit by McCay. Contributors to the exhibit include Paul Pope, Gregory Benton, Dean Haspiel, Yuko Shimizu, Jim Rugg, Ronald Winberly, Andrea Tsurumi, Raul Gonzalez III, and more!” Click here to see samples from the book.
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By: Jerry Beck,
on 12/25/2014
We rarely see "Peace On Earth" alongside more traditionally revered holiday standards like "A Charlie Brown Christmas" or "How the Grinch Stole Christmas"�but we really should.
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By: Jerry Beck,
on 12/4/2014
Finding the perfect book for the beloved animation fan in your life can be a big challenge, but these gift-book ideas will inform and inspire anyone who loves animation and drawing.
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By: Jerry Beck,
on 11/6/2014
To honor Gertie the Dinosaur's 100th birthday, John Canemaker will recreate Winsor McCay's original vaudeville act at the Musuem of Modern Art tonight.
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By: Jerry Beck,
on 11/6/2014
To honor Gertie the Dinosaur's 100th birthday, John Canemaker will recreate Winsor McCay's original vaudeville act at the Musuem of Modern Art tonight.
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By: Jerry Beck,
on 10/6/2014
If you're looking for something cartoon-related to watch tonight, Turner Classic Movies is running an entire evening's worth of animation.
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By: Jerry Beck,
on 9/30/2014
This Gertie the Dinosaur and tuxedoed Winsor McCay garage kit is especially appropriate in 2014, the 100th anniversary of McCay's seminal animated film.
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By: Jerry Beck,
on 8/25/2014
Historian, author and Oscar-winning filmmaker John Canemaker is headed to Los Angeles to present not one, but two animation lectures on the evening of Saturday, September 13th.
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By: Jerry Beck,
on 3/28/2013
“Animation is a young man’s game,” Chuck Jones once said. There’s no question that animation is a labor-intensive art that requires mass quantities of energy and time. While it’s true that the majority of animation directors have directed a film by the age of 30, there are also a number of well known directors who started their careers later.
Directors like Pete Docter, John Kricfalusi and Bill Plympton didn’t begin directing films until they were in their 30s. Don Bluth, Winsor McCay and Frederic Back were late bloomers who embarked on directorial careers while in their 40s. Pioneering animator Emile Cohl didn’t make his first animated film, Fantasmagorie (1908), until he was 51 years old. Of course, that wasn’t just Cohl’s first film, but it is also considered by most historians to be the first true animated cartoon that anyone ever made.
Here is a cross-selection of 30 animation directors, past and present, and the age they were when their first professional film was released to the public.
By: Julie Fortenberry,
on 10/15/2012
By: Jerry Beck,
on 10/14/2012
I can’t praise enough Google’s use of their homepage to give credit to animation and comic pioneers. Their front-page Google Doodle for Monday, October 15, is a tribute to Winsor McCay and his comic strip Little Nemo.
The interative, animated HTML5 comic is entitled Little Nemo in Google-land and was created by Jennifer Hom and Corrie Scalisi. It’s being released on the 107th anniversary of McCay’s comic. If you can’t wait until tomorrow to see it, it’s already live on Google sites in other parts of the world.
RELATED: Meet the artists who make the Google Doodles.
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By: David Elzey,
on 11/1/2011
written by Jim McCann illustrated by Janet Lee Archaia 2010 In a world, where time has stopped, populated by eleven year old children and their robot minders, comes a story of the day the men from space came to repair the damage that had been done long ago... It would be fun if I could say that this book struck a balance between Winsor McCay's Little Nemo in Slumberland and the British TV
By: John,
on 2/8/2011
In case you hadn’t heard, Brad Bird received the Winsor McCay Award at this year’s Annie Awards. Here is his acceptance speech. Warning: It is awesome.
Thanks for the nice coverage, Alexander! Two things, though: I think you mean “genteel” in your headline, although the early newspaper strip artists were certainly Gentiles, as well. And the French cartoonist Francoise spoke of is merely “Fred”–Philemon is his character.
Thank you again for coming, and for the report!
Shows how much a Violet education has done for me, huh? Maybe I should have gone to school uptown. ;)
Thank you for the pointers and for all your hard work on the panels this weekend. It was wonderful, and I’m glad I was able to attend!