Bob McCay
Robert Winsor McCay (June 21, 1896 – April 21, 1962) was an American
Early life
Robert McCay was born to Winsor and Maude McCay on June 21, 1896. A sister, Marion, was born the following year. In 1903 Winsor moved the family from Cincinnati to New York City in order to work for the New York Herald. Bob was enrolled in Erasmus High School but failed to graduate when he ran away at the age of 17.[1]
At age 19, McCay was enrolled as an art student at the
Three weeks after their discharge, the
Having attained the rank of sergeant, McCay returned home and was honorably discharged in spring 1919, marrying Tedda in 1921. A daughter, Janet, was born in 1922, and a son, Winsor Robert, in 1928.
McCay worked as an art assistant for his father, doing the inking, lettering and detailing work on a number of cartoons. He received sole credit for several, including an animated film. He continued working as an assistant on various projects until his father's death in 1934.
Golden Age of Comic Books
Illustrator
In 1935, McCay signed with King Features Syndicate to produce Nemo in Adventureland, which featured the characters of his father's work Little Nemo as adults and ran until 1936. He also made political cartoons for the syndicate during the 1930s, and again during the early 1950s.[2]
In 1937,
Inker/colorist
Around 1939, McCay began working for
McCay-Richardson Syndicate
In 1947, McCay attempted to release a modernized version of his father's Little Nemo and formed the McCay-Richardson Features Syndicate with distributor Duke Richardson. McCay took his father’s original drawings and cut individual frames out, pasting them to fit into a half-broadsheet page format, providing new dialogue and colours. The McCay-Richardson Syndicate distributed this version from approximately March to December 1947.
Bob eventually worked as an illustrator in Training Aids/Special Services for
References
- ^ ISBN 0-8109-5941-0. page #?
- ^ "Press: 1935 Nemo". Time. April 1, 1935. Archived from the original on October 26, 2007.
- Lambiek Comiclopedia
External links
- McCay, Bob at Bails, Jerry, and Hames Ware, Who's Who in American Comic Books 1929–1999
- Women of Ward (Bill Ward official site). WebCitation archive.
- Amash, Jim. "Quality Control: A Conversation with Gill Fox—Artist, Writer, and Editor (1940–43) of Quality Comics Group", Alter Ego vol. 3, #12, January 2002. WebCitation archive.
- Bob McCay at IMDb