Fantasy Stories

An innovative creator of seven comic features, editorial cartoons, and animations, Winsor McCay is perhaps best known for his strip that transported readers into the dreams of Little Nemo, his signature character. Running intermittently from 1905–1927, this comic chronicles Nemo’s adventures in “slumberland,” which can be beautiful, or disturbing, or surreal, or any combination thereof. Here an ape turns the tables on Nemo, ordering him and fellow captives to jump through hoops.