Little Nemo by Winsor McCay

 

 

Little Nemo by Winsor McCay, where was this when I was growing up?!?! This is so good its ridiculous how long its taken me to find out about this comic strip. This is now my new standard for old time comics. To be honest when I saw the drawings for the first time I didn't know if I was going to like it because it seemed too old. I had a problem as a kid with looking at old comics; basically my young brain didn't like the old cartoons. I was gifted with great drawing abilities since I was a kid so when I saw drawings that weren't to my liking I simply did not bother with them. I always wanted the newer stuff, the edgy super black contrasting lines of Marvel and DC. Boy was I a dumb kid Little, Nemo is outstanding. 

Let me explain why I'm so taken with this comic strip. When I think of old time comic I think of old comic books, not comic strips I didn't know there were old time comic strips when I was younger. I thought the funnies in a newspaper must have been a recent thing because of the style of drawings; obviously I was dead wrong. Even after I saw that there were older comic strips I didn't really care for them because I associated them with old comic books, I simply didn't want to bother with the story if the drawings weren't to my liking. Now I wish I were exposed to Little Nemo back then, the quality of drawing in perfect for the short stories that Winsor McCay would deliver every Sunday. What I loved about reading this was how light hearted the stories were, how beautiful the drawings are, and what surprised me the most was the fact that there is a long spanning story between each week. I'm used to reading the modern comics in a newspaper and usually they don't have long stories, they are one off comics that fit into a narrative background but don't actually tell a continuous story. This is truly a masterpiece of works and I believe it should be read by everyone, young or old.