Winsor McCay: Early Works, Vol. 3 (Paperback)

~ Winsor McCay (Author)

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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

Product Description

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.

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Product Details

• Paperback: 200 pages
• Publisher: Checker Book Publishing Group; illustrated edition edition (July 28, 2004)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0974166499
• ISBN-13: 978-0974166490
• Product Dimensions: 10.1 x 6.5 x 0.4 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.com Sales Rank: #872,853 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

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

By	Thelonious "music, philosophy and math" (West Coast, USA) - See all my reviews

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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.