MetaFilter posts tagged with winsormccay

Superman meets Little Nemo

vronsky — Tue, 05 Aug 2008 13:25:13 -0800

"I've recently been reading the whole run of I've recently been reading the whole run of Superman comics from the relaunch in 1987 through the end of 1999... There's some very wonderful stuff in there amidst a lot of frustrating and very often muddled and boring storytelling, but I will say that THIS find in particular was just stunning; Artist/writer Stuart Immonen - who is great - composed the lead story for a 1998 "Secret Files" comic - which are usually quite boring - focusing on the origin stories of Superman's 90's-era Rogues Gallery. -- What makes it more than just a flashback or recap is that Immonen told them by way of Lex Luthor telling fairy tales to his infant daughter Lena, and illustrated the origins in one- or two-page comics fashioned after Winsor McCay's Little Nemo in Slumberland." ~v

The Moving Dreams of a Rarebit Fiend

carsonb — Mon, 10 Sep 2007 21:03:42 -0800

In 1921 comic strip artist Windsor McCay lay claim to the illustrious title Inventor of Animated Drawing on the title cards of his hand-drawn moving versions of Dreams of the Rarebit Fiend. Here are three of the delightful and funny animations:
The Pet
The Flying House
Bug Vaudeville
If anyone can locate and link to the first of these animated pieces, simply called Dream of a Rarebit Fiend, I'd be much obliged. Please don't miss Astro Zombie's spectacular introduction to Dreams of the Rarebit Fiend (the comic strip) nor snarkout's excellent post on the origins of American animation; sadly, crunchland's background/work post on Windsor McCay is deadlinked. Also of note is this 6-minute live action version of Dream of a Rarebit Fiend, directed by Edwin S. Porter (a man worthy of his own MeFi post, to be sure) in 1906. This short uses a radically innovative trick photography technique developed by Georges Méliès. Here's another (slightly longer) version of it set to a loopy Loony Tunes score.

RIP Farley the dog.

ktoad — Tue, 22 Aug 2006 15:02:34 -0800

Nancy , the best comic strip ever? Close but no cigar. Pogo? Peanuts? Calvin? Good choices all, but still wrong. Krazy Kat you say? Again I shake my head sadly, friend. For Mr. Dave Astor has finally stepped forward to settle this debate once and for all. The greatest comic strip ever appearing on newsprint? Why, it's For Better or For Worse of course. Let the debate begin.

old cartoon art, mostly in french

crunchland — Sat, 27 Sep 2003 11:11:56 -0800

The Life & Art of Winsor McCay ... part of Coconino Classics, "ressource encyclopedique sur l'histoire de la narration graphique."