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Cartoonist · Animator

Winsor McCay

c. 1867–1934 · Comics · Fantasy

The Sunday page becomes a dream

An American cartoonist and animator whose architectural pages turned sleep into spectacular visual adventure.

Little Nemo in Slumberland is the Chronicle marker for Winsor McCay, connecting this work to the wider development of Comics and Fantasy.

Why the work endures

His page design and animation experiments remain foundational to comics and moving-image fantasy.

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