A King's Trip

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Rarebit is good, but let's not forget the other little strip McCay had. It has its moment as well

Destructive Advertising

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Well, I'll be swizzled, Herzog was right, commercials will destroy us. That old Winsor McCay was a visionary.

A puzzle in panel form

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I'm not sure what is going on here, but I'm willing to go on the journey.

A Long Trip

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Always good to trek back to the masters, like McCay.

Dreams and Dinosaurs

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How is it with ten panels McCay can tell a story better than most 2 hour films? Always a wonderful surprise with this artist.

Baby Elephant ( by Winsor McCay)

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One of the many pre-little Nemo strips McCay did; proving his versatility, but also that finding the right conduit for your talents is just as important as having them.

Rarebit again

One of the creepiest rarebits I have seen, and a starling concept for a newspapers strip read by millions. It also seems eerily similar to an E.C. comic story decades later, proving how much of an influence the old strips were.

Resurgence of Rarebit

I thought of this after the statement my grandmother made during lunch yesterday, that all the great funnies are gone. All the great illustration and fun has been drained out. She mentioned Prince Valiant and lil' Abner, and I thought of this.

And yes, this opinion is very similar to other artists on the net who have blogs. Rather than thinking of it as piggybacking, it merely shows ideas have no copyright on them, and different people in different situations can come to the same conclusions.

My Sunday best to scans_daily

Random Rarebit

We all need a bit of Winsor McCay every now and then, don't we?

scans_daily and I think so.

Green Apple Swag: Winsor McCay-His Life and Art

Amazing book, and for only ten bucks(Normally fivty five, and supposed to be thirty at the store but I haggled). Well worth it. Though I'm afraid this only shows how far animation has fallen.

Fun quote by McCay:
"Mankind's greatest disease is laziness."