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inly true and the interaction and dialogue between nemo flip and other denizens of slumberland appears flat in comparison to the charm and personality that slumberland itself can affect during the course of a sunday strip however a close examination of mccay s work as a whole reveals a variety of personality and growth for the main characters nemo s own reticent nature may have been a purposeful choice on the part of mccay richard marschall editor of the best of little nemo in slumberland wrote in his introduction to that book that nemo s name the latin translation of which is no one may actually have been a conscious decision to keep the main character as bland or passive as possible according to marschall nemo is the every man dreamer who corresponds to the reader famed illustrator maurice sendak wrote of nemo that one reason for his quietude and reticence during the journeys through slumberland is that nemo lacks savior faire he is naive and as simple and straightforward as apple pie descriptions of mccay s characters as one dimensional suggest readings of mccay s work as single pages instead of as parts of a larger narrative whole nemo isn t passive to the actions of slumberland and supporting cast flip the main antagonist and later a sort of buddy for nemo may jump off the page at times with his zany jealousy and rivalries but nemo grows into his role as slumberland explorer sendak actually laments one of the ways in which nemo grows into his character where nemo and flip come to blows and nemo wins sendak wrote a sad victory nemo exchanges childhood for manhood never thinking he might have both even in strips sans flip where nemo plays off the princess or a missive from morpheus his own personality comes through in the case of somnus the horse he is given to arrive in slumberland nemo is challenged to a race and lets his pride get the best of him he is thrown off the horse and lands in bed 1904 ny herald a second example is the moment where nemo overwhelmed by his desire for the beautiful queen crystalite takes her in his arms in a big kiss and breaks her into a million pieces 1906 ny herald _______ while these emotive experiences do seem to fit in sendak s assertion that nemo is perhaps exchanging his boyhood for manhood nemo s personality does not seem to be permanently altered by the strips the next sunday he is back to be being an unsure and cautious dreamer in a world which many times turns dangerous at any moment these moments of assertive and usually wrong headed adultness combined with his passivity and fearful approach as a child in a dangerous dreamworld serve to make nemo a complete whole instead of a onedimensional character who serves as a foil for the slumberland and flip just as dreams can have the dreamer childlike and afraid one night and aggressive the next mccay allows nemo the full range of possibilities above and below three examples from the ny herald of nemo being his non character coward self afraid of an ogre and then more expressive five years later in an adventure on mars it s not all agout nemo nemo isnt the only character who blossoms with a more complete reading of the work secondary characters evolve and change with the plot as well as is the case when the brooding and wise morpheus gets painful gout ny herald 2 jan 1910 or later nemo strips when the princess and nemo engage in play dates and get into trouble being secondary characters they still aren t as fully fleshed out as nemo and flip but having them change means they are more than just the brooding king and lonely princess archetypes they seem at first brush gouty morpheus ny herald 2 jan 1910 ________ hidden in plain sight what critics of the strip often forget is that nemo flip and the denizens of slumberland aren t the only characters in mccay s works slumberland itself is as much a character as any of the actors on its stage when the strip was reinvented under a different name because of legal issues with the publisher owning the rights to the name of little nemo in slumberland the strip name didn t even include nemo instead it was penned as in the land of wonderful dreams later when the rights reverted and the strip was rebooted in the 1920s nemo s appellation did return however during the most popular nemo strips those taking place from 1908 1912 a main driving force behind action and narrative isn t just the titular boy it s the world in which he finds himself in slumberland s case many of the events that happen to normal comic book heroes such as growth change conflict and resolution are present sadly most often the resolution for slumberland is that the place falls to pieces or melts as a result of sunlight and deposits nemo back into consciousness in a typical slumberland scene nemo is told not to touch something he does and as a result unravels the very fabric of slumberland 1905 ny herald ______ right famed european illustrator jean giraud aka moebius cites little nemo as a great influence in his work and worked on his own version of the tale in 1994 watterson also presented a critique of the design of slumberland itself saying that the environments look too sterile and like his opinion of the characters are more superficial than substantive while mccay uses an art noveau line which at times almost borders on or also influenced as in the case of many european artists like moebius the ligneclaire style a question of sterility ends up really being a matter of taste a reason for watterson s criticism could be simply that the differences between mccay s architectural marvels and the and expressionistic planets or jungles that watterson s brushwork conjured are extreme again it comes down to personal style watterson s planets could not exist without spaceman spiff but slumberland doesn t need nemo to work great cartoonists like watterson may not like mccay s style but there is no arguing with the care and talent with which mccay impregnated each page every page is a marvel of design and ornament watterson wrote the constant invention the playful distortions the subtle coloring the panoramas of architectural splendor never has another comic strip taken such full advantage of the visual possibilities for surprise sources a very short bibliography images and articles from the best of little nemo in slumberland richard marschall 1997 stewart tabori and chang ny ny quotes from maurice sendak were excerpted from his essay an elaborate and audacious fantasy first published in 1973 the above essay is 2010 bill bedard all rights reserved it is posted with permission ________________________________________ about the author student bill bedard has a blog website which you can access with this link pay it a visit won t you further reading resources for more on winsor mccay s influential early 20th century comicstrip creations see survey 1 comic strip essays katie moody on winsor mccay s dream of the rarebit fiend click this link you can purchase your own copy of the best of little nemo in slumberland at amazon com here s the current availability we also most highly recommend editor publisher peter maresca s marvelous little nemo in slumberland so many splendid sundays which reproduces the mccay strips in their original sunday page dimensions copies of are still available at amazon com here s the current availability this book is in the schulz library s permanent collection we also most highly recommend the followup volume little nemo in slumberland many more splendid sundays volume 2 copies of are still available at amazon com here s the current availability ccs instructor stephen bissette interviewed peter maresca back in november of 2005 when the first volume of winsor mccay s little nemo in slumberland so many splendid sundays was first published here s the complete interview archived on the original myrant blog site 2 comments posted in historic tagged best of little nemo in slumberland bill bedard bill watterson ccs survey of the drawn story i in the land of wonderful dreams little nemo in slumberland maurice sendak richard marschall the ny herald winsor mccay halloween heroes of vermont posted on 10 26 2010 by jenvaughn 3 comments october 31st represents not only the end of a autumnal month here in vermont with trees ablaze in their colorful death but a time consumed by costumed celebration betsey swardlick ccs 11 below pens an essay on the connection betwixt the town of rutland and the comics universe white river junction a town that takes pride in its vibrant artistic community has an annual halloween parade sporting human sized butterfly puppets swooping above the crowd a glorious flame belching fire organ and a procession of costumed revelers wending their way through the town center with over two dozen art studios nestled into the downtown this is not your grandma s holiday craft crowd with the addition of the center for cartoon studies in 2005 a yearly influx of cartoonists added yet another element of creativity to the town and to the parade as the school gains national and international notice for its growing contribution to the comics field the town can boast a unique place in the art world white river junction is one funky little vermont town made famous by comics but we have to remember that an hour to the west the slightly larger town of rutland has a venerable connection to comics and halloween that has exercised some of the most creative and influential talents in the comics industry in 1959 rutland held its first halloween parade consisting largely of the high school marching band and one kid in a casper the friendly ghost costume so how did this quaint bit of rural revelry become one of the largest and most beloved halloween events in the country how did it garner the notoriety to inspire dc and marvel comics to set superhero stories in its midst ask around and the locals will tell you about tom fagan rutland local tom fagan saw the inaugural parade and thought not bad but i think it could be better recreation chief commissioner john cioffredi took him at his word and appointed him general chairman of the event for 1960 fagan an enthusiastic follower of dc s batman comics chose the all encompassing theme of creatures of the night and set to work knitting hispassion for comics into his newly acquired civic duty the second rutland halloween parade featured a batman float with the caped crusader himself fagan incognito as parade marshall fagan wrote letters to detective comics the publisher of batman and other titles starring heroes such as superman informing readers that batman was now the leader of the rutland parade a tradition was established fagan s love of comics infused the parade with an energy that kept rutland engaged year after year in that time before specialized comic book stores and only a very few small comics conventions there were few opportunities for comics fans to celebrate their interest with tom fagan at the helm the rutland halloween parade grew from a simple town event to a celebration of comics fandom so great it spread not only to fans and to professional writers and artists of comics but even to the content of the comics themselves in 1965 fagan attended a convention in new york city hosted by dave kaler fan turned writer for charlton comics fagan invited dave and another charlton writer roy thomas to the rutland parade by that time the single batman float had grown into a cavalcade of more and more comics characters saluting the crowds and returning their cheers the post parade party for the volunteers added to the event s appeal and quickly became legendary housed first in an old victorian home on pine street and later moved to the old governor s mansion known as the clement house the party was fagan s thank you to all those who volunteered their time and energy to the parade by the end of the 1960s some 200 to 300 people flocked to the mansion each year as fagan attended more comics conventions he found the parade had started to build a reputation among cartoonists some of whom remembered his letters in detective comics fagan would invite them to see the parade for themselves and by 1968 notable dc writers such as marv wolfman len wein and mark hanerfield made the trek to rutland in 1970 the bridge between comics culture and comics mythology was crossed when the rutland parade was written into the marvel universe roy thomas then working for marvel was so taken by the parade and its energy that he set avengers 83 the lady liberators in rutland during the event thomas also wrote himself fagan and fagan s wife jeanie into the book marking the first of many cameos of real people to be made by marvel and dc staff in subsequent rutland stories the parade even inspired the first inter company crossover in 1973 when steve engleheart gerry conway and len wein teamed up to write a three part story featuring themselves tom fagan and heroes and villains from both the marvel and dc universes between 1970 and the present the rutland halloween parade was featured in no fewer than fifteen separate issues of multiple titles by marvel dc and warp graphics the most recent appearance was in 1997 in dc s superboy and the ravers 16 although tom fagan had retired from his post as parade chairman by the mid 2000s he continued to attend as a special guest and costume judge until his death in 2008 just a few weeks shy of halloween though fagan is gone the spirit of the parade remains true to his original vision the parade celebrated its 50th anniversary in 2009 and will continue to bring comics fans together for years to come the center for cartoon studies is proud to present this exhibit about rutland s halloween heroes their parade and their comics two small vermont towns not far apart play unlikely roles in that most american of art forms the comic book betsey swardlick ccs 11 the halloween heroes exhibit will open this friday october 29th from 5pm to 8pm gallery hours will continue every saturday from 10am to 2pm at the center for cartoon studies in the heart of white river junction vermont you can t miss us we have a window display with a robot to take part in the white river junction gory daze parade please show up at the main street museum at 9pm on saturday october 30th it s at 58 bridge street right by these wooden sculptures charming cartoonists no doubt will be covered in halloween frippery to download this article please click here jen vaughn 3 comments posted in historic super heroes tagged betsey swardlick gory daze halloween main street museum parades rutland parade rutland vermont super heroes tom fagan white river junction halloween horrors pre code reprints rule briefer s frankenstein from idw posted on 10 25 2010 by srbissette 1 comment we re in an age of amazing reprint volumes resurrecting all genres of comics history but this is the last week in october so it s time to carve out some space for two of the latest pre code horror comicbook collections and who better to begin 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