Little Nemo in Slumberland: Many More Splendid Sundays, Volume 2 [Hardcover]

Winsor McCay (Author), Peter Maresca (Editor)

Book Description

Publication Date: August 2008

The much-anticipated sequel from Sunday Press Books. Designed by Eisner Award-Winner Philippe Ghielmetti. Here are more of Little Nemo's dreams of Slumberland - Winsor McCay's world of fantasy, terror, humor, and grand adventure. This is the second volume in the centennial celebration of the most spectacular comic strip of all time: a strip acclaimed for its artistic majesty, unbounded imagination, and the ground-breaking techniques that helped define a new art form. In 2005, the publication of Little Nemo in Slumberland - So Many Splendid Sundays marked the centennial of Winsor McCay's supreme graphic achievement. That book astounded the world of comics and art, becoming the most highly praised book of its kind, ever! This new collection presents more of those famed Sunday newspaper pages - a "best of" collection from 1906 to 1924, with examples from all three incarnations of Little Nemo. Includes the "Palace of Ice" story and the best of "In The Land of Wonderful Dreams." Here are 110 more digitally-restored pages, presented in their original size and colors, including many pages that have never been reprinted before in any format. ?128 pages hardbound, 21 x 16 inches. Do not confuse this deluxe volume with other shrunk-down versions of Nemo. Enjoy this timeless masterpiece as it was meant to be seen. BONUS - Each book comes with a facsimile of a vintage Gertie the Dinosaur animation flip-book.

Product Details

• Hardcover
• Publisher: Sunday Press Books; Deluxe edition edition (August 2008)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0976888556
• ISBN-13: 978-0976888550
• Product Dimensions: 21 x 16.2 x 0.9 inches
• Shipping Weight: 4.5 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #156,682 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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14 of 14 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Slumberland's Sunset, August 12, 2008

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Brent R. Swanson "coffee shop inspector" (Crooper, Illinois) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Little Nemo in Slumberland: Many More Splendid Sundays, Volume 2 (Hardcover)

If you bought the previous "Nemo" collection from Sunday Press, you know it was a whopper. And weren't all the "Nemo" pages worthy of a giant-sized book included in that volume? This book doesn't have a parade of sequences to match Nemo's journey to Slumberland, Befuddle Hall, nor the Flight to Mars, but you'd be hard-pressed to find another book that had 120 pages as fanciful and beautiful as those in this follow-up volume.

The terrific sequences weren't all swallowed by the first volume. "Many More Splendid Sundays" includes the Ice Palace, the Pirate Abduction, and the Airship Tour continuities, as well as representative selections from the "In the Land of Wonderful Dreams" and the second "Slumberland" series. There's also the very last "Wonderful Dreams" page from July 26, 1914, that eluded the diligent editors of the Remco and Checker "Nemo" collections, so if you're a Winsor McCay completist, this book is a must.

It's a must anyway, because try as they may, the smaller-proportioned collections just can't do justice to the magnitude of McCay's art. True, the storylines grew weary as the years went on; the strip was never the same after Nemo changed from wide-eyed adventurer to the man-child in charge. But when you see even the later strips in their true dimensions, when the draftsmanship and colors unfurl and work their magic, these pages become a circus of visual wonders. Even the final round of "Slumberland" strips have the ability to captivate.

In addition to the "lost" finale to "Wonderful Dreams," there are also samplings of McCay's other dream-themed strips, as well as a "Gertie the Dinosaur" flipbook (do-it-yourself) insert, and editorial contributions from Jeffrey Stanton, Brian Walker, and Ron Goulart, among others. This book is a treasure-trove companion to the previous "Splendid Sundays" volume. The only heartache it will give you is in finding a place big enough to store it.

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Great Presentation, January 24, 2010

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S. Cook "Little Nemo" (MD USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Little Nemo in Slumberland: Many More Splendid Sundays, Volume 2 (Hardcover)

This book is a treasure to any Little Nemo or comics fan in general. The volume is beautifully produced and expertly bound. The size of the pages is what every Nemo fan was wishing for without knowing it. Highly recommended.