![]() ![]() "I wish I could sleep without waking up!" he says in one panel.įrom NPR Website, written by ETELKA LEHOCZKY Ultimately, Nemo always ends up safely back in his bedroom. Instead, his mind overflows with exotic exploits, wonderful creatures straight out of the circuses McCay loved, and companions to share it all with. Nemo rarely gets a good night's sleep, but he certainly isn't tormented by Freudian angst. ![]() With Little Nemo in Slumberland, his groundbreaking newspaper comic, he presented a dream world that was as sublime as it was reassuring to his Edwardian readers. He didn't bring intellectual theories to the fight, but something more potent: beauty. It was 1905, hot on the heels of Freud's supremely unsettling The Interpretation of Dreams, and the cartoonist was Winsor McCay. Once, a cartoonist went to battle for dreamland. ![]()
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