Winsor McCay: Early Works, Vol. 3 [Paperback]

Winsor McCay (Author, Artist)

Book Description

Publication Date: July 28, 2004 | Series: Winsor McCay

More Dream of the Rarebit Fiend (1907 strips), Little Sammy Sneeze, A Pilgrim's Progress (1907 Strips) and dozens of McCay's editorial illustrations from his New York period. Just a slice of the genius of McCay, who has been credited with over a million drawings in his lifetime.

Editorial Reviews

Review

Readers for whom this very highly recommended collection will be their first exposure to McCay's legendary newspaper comic strip, will also be interested in reading the Daily strips collected in the Checker series Winsor McCay: The Early Works (along with other material from the period). James Cox --Midwest Book Review

About the Author

Winsor McCay (1876-1934) was born in Michigan and began his art career in Cincinnati, where he landed his first job as a newspaper illustrator and cartoonist with The Cincinnati Enquirer. He moved to New York in 1903, landing another newspaper job, this time with the New York Herald, where he produced his best known cartoon, Little Nemo in Slumberland. Leaving the Herald and Nemo behind, McCay took his talents to William Randolph HearstÂ’s New York American, where he turned his focus to editorial illustration and his pioneering experiments in animation. He would not return to strip cartooning again until a brief revival of Nemo in the later years of his life.

Product Details

• Paperback: 200 pages
• Publisher: Checker Book Publishing Group (July 28, 2004)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0974166650
• ISBN-13: 978-0974166490
• ASIN: 0974166499
• Product Dimensions: 10.2 x 6.7 x 0.5 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.1 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,167,344 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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4.0 out of 5 stars Quite Dreamy and Rare, February 22, 2006

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This review is from: Winsor McCay: Early Works, Vol. 3 (Paperback)

One of the better volumes in the series (along with Volume 4).

As with the other volumes from Checker, the reproduction quality varies from page to page and is sometimes rather poor, but this volume suffers less than most, I think. Unfortunately the quality suffers the most in the opening section of Rarebits which is some of the better content. Oh, well.

The contents can be broken down approximately as follows: Rarebit Fiend 90 pages (50 daily, 40 saturday), Editorial Cartoons 20 pages, Sammy Sneeze 20 pages, Pilgrim's Progress 50 pages.

Sammy Sneeze is pretty much a snooze and Pilgrom's Progress is amusing enough but not as insightful as Rarebit, so I'd rather have less of those, but this volume has a generous helping of Rarebits (many not reprinted elsewhere to my knowledge). Also nearly all of the "Editorial" work is of pretty high quality and I don't think I've seen any of these before. Not all of these are really editorial cartoons, some are illustrations for stories, but they nearly all have that epic sweep that his best editorial (or 'picure sermon') work has.