![]() ![]() Today, McCay’s Little Nemo comic strips are widely recognized as some of the earliest examples of formal experimentation in the comics form. It would run until its eventual conclusion in 1927. In 1924, McCay would revive Little Nemo in Slumberland back at the series’ original home, now called the New York Herald Tribune. He continued telling Little Nemo’s stories under a new title, In the Land of Wonderful Dreams, until 1914. ![]() It would be published by the Herald until 1911 when its creator, the renowned early master of comics art, Winsor McCay, was tempted to William Randolph Hearst’s New York American newspaper. ![]() ![]() The strip was called Little Nemo in Slumberland. These weekly episodic stories in art nouveau-style would always find Nemo ending his nightly visits to “Slumberland” by either falling out of bed or waking up to a call from his parents to get up and get ready for Sunday School. Each weekend, as a part of the Sunday Supplements, Little Nemo would journey in his dreams to Slumberland, a world of wonder and imagination, as a guest of King Morpheus, king of Slumberland, to be a playmate for his daughter, the Princess. On 15 October 1905, readers of the New York Herald were introduced to a young cartoon boy affectionately called Little Nemo. ![]()
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