The Google Doodle dedicated to 107 years of the publication of Little Nemo helps me talk about comics. And on October 15, 1905, the first Sunday plate of Little Nemo in Slumberland, a fascinating and fantasy-filled work by the author Winsor McCay that since I discovered it in the 80s until now it maintains and improves its value and contribution to history. And it is that Little Nemo is a fundamental work, very modern, with visual discoveries, application of perspectives, creativity and imagination and also with a new way of telling things and that was totally conditioned by the size of the newspaper! in which it was published weekly.
Little Nemo tells the story of a young boy who comes to an amazing country during sleep, Slumberland, where he runs the most incredible adventures in the company of Flip, the Imp or Dr. Pill and in the last vignette always wake up! of his nightmare full of adventures. Apparently each publication resumed the dream where it had been the night before allowing the series to have a structure in which McCay included secondary characters and a world of dreams called Slumberland fascinating.
In the article we mentioned a few months ago about "1,001 comics to read before you die" we linked to an image of the author Winsor McCay. In it you can see this artist working between paper and ink and never better. It is an image that belongs to the past and illustrates the enormous work and dedication that these pioneers put into their work.
The comic was published in the pages of the New York Herald often Sunday and served McCay to revolutionize the expressive resources of the comic. It was published until July 23, 1911, and although it was never the most popular cartoon of its time, it can be said that over time the value of this creation has been recognized even by Google to integrate it into its fantastic library of Doodles that has not We can get lost.
And is that the Google Doodles They grow and grow making tributes and recognitions to the history of the arts around the world with great respect and with enormous doses of creativity.
