#OTD in 1905.
The weekly full-color comic strip Little Nemo in Slumberland, by Winsor McCay, debuts in the New York Herald.
The strip was renamed In the Land of Wonderful Dreams when McCay brought it to William Randolph Hearst's New York American, where it ran from Sept. 1911-July 1914. When McCay returned to the Herald in 1924, he revived the strip, and it ran under its original title from Aug. 1924-Jan. 1927.
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in reply to Project Gutenberg • • •McCay was also a pioneering animator. Since techniques like "cels" had not been invented yet, he drew every frame as a compete picture, by hand!
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Here's a slightly tongue-in-cheek picture of him at work (from the live-action "framing" of the 1911 animated Little Nemo).
American cartoonist and animator
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