Little Nemo: 1905-1914 (Evergreen)
by Winsor McCay
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Book Summary Information
Author: Winsor McCayIllustrator: Winsor McCay
Introduction: Bill Blackbeard
Edition: Hardcover
Audio: English (Original Language); English (Unknown); English (Published)
Published: 2000-04-01
ISBN: 3822863009
Number of pages: 432
Publisher: Taschen
Book Reviews of Little Nemo: 1905-1914 (Evergreen)
Book Review: Imperfect Classic
Summary: 3 Stars
This collection of Little Nemo comics contains every Little Nemo in Slumberland and In the Land of Wonderful Dreams strip in a nice hardcover book. While bigger than a standard comic book (about the size as one of DC's "Absolute" editions), the pages are actually smaller than original 16x20 newspaper pages. For the price, however, it's hard to beat this book.
Little Nemo follows the adventures of Nemo as he first tries to make his way to Slumberland to play with the princess and his later adventures in Slumberland, across the world, and even Mars.
The comics are an exercise in surreality. Stories where buildings come to life, Nemo meets Father Time, or the characters get stuck in lands of giants/little people are common.
Beyond the content, McCay sometimes plays with panel layouts and even breaks the 4th wall once or twice. His strength, however, lays in mundane things like scale and perspective, which he uses to heighten the surrealness of the stories. McCay can also draw glorious architecture based on either the real world or firmly embedded in fantasy.
The weak point of Little Nemo is the story telling. After the fantastical set of comics depicting Nemo's adventures as he gets to Slumberland and meets the princess, McCay tends to get into ruts with his stories. There's about 50 comics showing Nemo and crew venturing around the USA and taking a tour of major cities in America and Canada that ends up being little more than statistics being recited to the reader. The 100 or so In the Land... comics mostly follow one of two story arcs (Dr. Pill tries to run away from Flip; Flip causes trouble or Imp plays a prank; Flip causes trouble). Combined with outdated story telling techniques (the comics are over 100 years old, after all) lead to stretches of tedium.
It should also be pointed out that there are a lot of things in the books that, while acceptable at the time of them being published, would be considered racist by today's standards. Most notably is Imp's stereotypical character design, though there are also instances of black face, racial slurs, and (strangely) a single comic ranting against women's suffrage.
Little Nemo is a classic comic for a good reason, but go into the book aware that it is written for a different time and isn't a breeze to read like the latest X-Men comic is.
Summary of Little Nemo: 1905-1914 (Evergreen)
A reproduction of some of the "Little Nemo" comic strip from the early 20th century. This volume reflects the distinctive art-nouveau style of the original drawings and follows Little Nemo as he journeys nightly into the world of dreams.Illustration Books
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