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The cutting-edge cartoons of Winsor McCay
- vonbaum 3y agoI love Windsor McKay. The Little Nemo strips are excellent. The entire series is on archive: https://archive.org/details/LittleNemo1905-1914ByWinsorMccay https://archive.org/details/LittleNemo1905-1914ByWinsorMccay Also his pioneering work in animation, Gertie the Dinosaur, is worth a watch: https://youtu.be/32pzHWUTcPc https://youtu.be/32pzHWUTcPc And a shameless plug for a guide to Tibetan dream yoga I made using McKay's illustrations: https://imgur.io/a/lc9x6Yf https://imgur.io/a/lc9x6Yf
- GolfPopper 3y agoThe early animation the absolutely blew me away when I saw it was the work of Bob Clampett (and John Coleman) early work for an never-produced John Carter of Mars, done in 1936: https://youtu.be/bTAlgZlqwnQ?t=34 https://youtu.be/bTAlgZlqwnQ?t=34
- joeamroo 3y agoSpeaking of Bob Clampett, I think he did a great job introducing surreal quasi-psych cartoons to the masses. Shame he wasn’t a decent workplace politician though.
- jf 3y agoI ran across a lot of Windsor McKay comics when I was working on my Krazy Kat project[0]. There are a lot of McKay comics just sitting in newspaper archives, waiting to be extracted and put into a webpage where they can be enjoyed. 0: https://joel.franusic.com/krazy_kat/about/ https://joel.franusic.com/krazy_kat/about/
- dekhn 3y agoI ended up buying "Little Nemo in Slumberland: So Many Splendid Sundays" which is a large-format bound book with a ton of the original strips. I really like his creativity in breaking out of the frames, and in showing a sequence of events across frames.