Little Nemo Return To Slumberland

An all-new, all-ages series full of magic and whimsy from award-winning creators Eric Shanower and Gabriel Rodriguez! Spinning out of Winsor McKay's brilliant early 20th century strip, Little Nemo: Return to Slumberland sees King Morpheus' daughter, in the Royal Palace of Slumberland, select her next-playmate: Nemo! Collects issues #1_4 and includes an art gallery from artist Gabriel Rodriguez.

The Eisner Award-winning* tale by Eric Shanower and Gabriel Rodriguez is re-presented in a glorious deluxe, oversized package. This striking, all-ages collection includes the original four-issue series, plus never-before-seen pitch artwork from Shanower, and a detailed look at the process employed by Shanower, Rodriguez, and their editors to reinvent a celebrated property! Join Nemo as you Return to Slumberland for an experience like no other! Spinning out of Winsor McCay’s brilliant early 20th century strip, Little Nemo: Return to Slumberland, sees King Morpheus’ daughter, in the Royal Palace of Slumberland, select her next-playmate: Nemo! Only Nemo has no interest in being anyone’s playmate, dream or no dream! An all-new tale full of magic and whimsy. *Winner of the 2015 Eisner Award for Best Limited Series.

Little Nemo in slumberland was a comic strip which ran from 1905 - 1927. The weekly strips, drawn in art nouveau style, told the story of a six year old boy and his night time fantasy world. This anthology contains nearly 200 of the best strips by W McCay.

"In The Poetics of Slumberland, Scott Bukatman celebrates play, plasmatic possibility, and the life of images in cartoons, comics, and cinema. Bukatman begins with Winsor McCay's Little Nemo in Slumberland to explore how and why the emerging media of comics and cartoons brilliantly captured a playful, rebellious energy. Slumberland is more than a marvelous world for Nemo and its other citizens; it is an aesthetic space defined by the artist's innovations. The book broadens to consider similar 'animated' behaviors in seemingly disparate media--films about Jackson Pollock, Pablo Picasso, and Vincent van Gogh; the musical My Fair Lady and the story of Frankenstein; the slapstick comedies of Jerry Lewis; and contemporary comic superheroes--drawing them all together as purveyors of embodied utopias of disorder."--Page 4 of cover.

"This anthology presents 30 comics by contemporary artists, inspired by Winsor McCay's legendary newspaper strip "Little Nemo in Slumberland""--

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.

"In the marvelous land of Oz, magic is always around the next corner. Dorothy, the Scarecrow, and their many Oz friends can't stop plunging into one adventure after another. Come journey over the rainbow to help save Oz from the Wicked Witch of the South, to ride an enchanted whirlpool that leads to a hidden island, to explore the spooky Great Gray Gillikin Swamp, to prevent a war between dragons and wood-nymphs, and to soar in an emerald unicorn to the frozen land of the mysterious Ice King." -- back cover.

Winsor McCay's Little Nemo is one of the greatest cultural phenomena of early 20th-century media. Nemo's dreamscape journey continues in this second volume, collecting all of his escapades from 1910 to 1927 in brilliant color and XXL resolution--329 episodes in total, including the legendary Airship Adventures. A delightful exploration of...