McCay’s first comic didn’t work but he found success quickly enough, with Little Sammy Sneeze, before creating his two most celebrated comic strips less than a year apart, Dream of the Rarebit Fiend and Little Nemo in Slumberland.īoth of them were about nocturnal adventures. Newspapers comics were also the main attractions for publishers like James Gordon Bennett or his today most famous concurrent William Randolph Hearst at the New York Journal. McCay was dreaming of having his own comic strip, a form of art that was in its earliest stage of development and, in consequence, where everything was possible. But it was in Telegram that he began experimenting with the comic strip form: a sequential panel called “Hubby Goes Shopping with the Usual Results” was published on December 24, 1903. He came to work for publisher James Gordon Bennett in 1903 where he was doing caricatures of officeholders. Considered a masterpiece, it shows the young Nemo atop his bed which had grown crazy long legs, and was walking among buildings.Īt this stage, creator Winsor McCay was working for the New York Herald for a few years and had already produced many illustrations and comic strips. One of the most famous Little Nemo in Slumberland comic strips today was published in July 1908. Little Nemo in Slumberland, New York Herald, January 7, 1906
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