![]() ![]() ( Alan Moore zinged McCay with a sleep-talker's monologue in his 1986 story "Pictopia": "Melted cheese! Melted cheese! Oh, mama, do take care, my sheets will tangle for sure!") As for McCay's work itself, it's been reprinted here and there, although virtually all of it is out of print, except for the odd page or two that inevitably shows up in history-of-comics retrospectives.īut he didn't draw his comic strips to be treated as museum pieces he drew them to make newspaper readers' eyes bug out of their heads. In "Dream of the Rarebit Fiend," which ran for almost 10 years in the early part of the 20th century, the food in question was specifically Welsh rarebit. ![]() Someone falls asleep and has a turbulent, fantastical dream, full of strange exclamations, then wakes up in the last panel, complaining about having eaten something before going to sleep. History-minded cartoonists from Art Spiegelman to Vittorio Giardino have composed dozens of homages to McCay he's easy to pastiche or parody, because his best strips follow the same formula in every episode. That's a shame - he was one of America's first major comic-strip artists, and a century after his peak, his work is still startling. ![]() Very few people who are still alive have seen Winsor McCay's work the way it was meant to be seen. ![]()
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