Winsor McCay: Difference between revisions

 

{{quote|''"I hope and dream the time will come when serious artists will make marvelous pictures that will love and live in life-like manner and be far more interesting and wonderful than pictures you now see on canvas. I think if Michelangelo was alive today he would immediately see the wonders...The artist can make his scenes and characters live instead of stand still on canvas in art museums."''|Winsor, talking during a WNAC Radio Broadcast, New York, September 1927}}

His most famous comic, ''[[Little Nemo in Slumberland]]'', is a surreal adventure through the bizarre world Nemo visits when he falls asleep. Other works include ''Dreams of the Rarebit Fiend'', an entire strip about people suffering [[Acid Reflux Nightmare|Acid Reflux Nightmares]]. McCay was also one of the first animators, the self-described "originator and inventor of animated cartoons". His first "attempt at drawing pictures that will move" was a two-minute ''Little Nemo'' skit in ''1911''; he drew over a thousand stills by himself, by hand. His most famous cartoon is probably ''[[Gertie the Dinosaur]]'', an animated short from 1914 that set the bar for future animators. ''Gertie'' was also the first film to ever use the [[Roger Rabbit Effect]].

 

* ''Little Sammy Sneeze'' (1904 to 1906)

* ''Dream of the Rarebit Fiend'' (1904-13)

* ''Poor Jake'' (1909 to 1911)

 

* [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_6N3giozPbI The Centaurs] (1921)

* ''The Flying House'' (1921): Winsor's last animated project. Was unfinished, but a [http://mayersononanimation.blogspot.com/2011/06/flying-house-resurrection-or-ruination.html modern day group of animators] are taking up the bold task of finishing this film.

 

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