Little Nemo
Little Nemo | |
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Author(s) | Winsor McCay |
Launch date | October 15, 1905 |
End date | January 9, 1927 |
Alternate name(s) | In the Land of Wonderful Dreams (1911–1914) |
Publisher(s) | |
Preceded by | Dream of the Rarebit Fiend |
Little Nemo is a fictional character created by American cartoonist Winsor McCay. He originated in an early comic strip by McCay, Dream of the Rarebit Fiend, before receiving his own spin-off series, Little Nemo in Slumberland.[1] The full-page weekly strip depicted Nemo having fantastic dreams that were interrupted by his awakening in the final panel. The strip is considered McCay's masterpiece for its experiments with the form of the comics page, its use of color and perspective, its timing and pacing, the size and shape of its panels, and its architectural and other details.
Little Nemo in Slumberland ran in the
Concept
A weekly fantasy adventure, Little Nemo in Slumberland featured the young Nemo ("No one" in Latin) who dreamed himself into wondrous predicaments[3] from which he awoke in bed in the last panel.[4] The first episode[a] begins with a command from King Morpheus of Slumberland to a minion to collect Nemo.[5] Nemo was to be the playmate of Slumberland's Princess, but it took months of adventures before Nemo finally arrived; a green, cigar-chewing clown named Flip was determined to disturb Nemo's sleep with a top hat emblazoned with the words "Wake Up".[3] Nemo and Flip eventually become companions, and are joined by an African Imp whom Flip finds in the Candy Islands. The group travels far and wide, from shanty towns to Mars, to Jack Frost's palace, to the bizarre architecture and distorted funhouse-mirror illusions of Befuddle Hall.[6]
The strip shows McCay's understanding of dream psychology, particularly of dream fears—falling, drowning, impalement. This dream world has its own moral code, perhaps difficult to understand.[7] Breaking it has terrible consequences, as when Nemo ignores instructions not to touch Queen Crystalette, who inhabits a cave of glass. Overcome with his infatuation, he causes her and her followers to shatter, and awakens with "the groans of the dying guardsmen still ringing in his ears".[b][8]
Although the strip began October 15, 1905, with Morpheus, ruler of Slumberland, making his first attempt to bring Little Nemo to his realm, Nemo did not get into Slumberland until March 4, 1906, and, due to Flip's interfering, did not get to see the Princess until July 8. His dream quest is always interrupted, either by his falling out of bed, or by his parents forcing him to wake up.
On July 12, 1908, McCay made a major change of direction: Flip visits Nemo and tells him that he has had his uncle destroy Slumberland (it had been dissolved before, into day, but this time it appeared to be permanent). After this, Nemo's dreams take place in his home town, though Flip—and a curious-looking boy named the Professor—accompany him. These adventures range from the down-to-earth to Rarebit-fiend type fantasy; one very commonplace dream had the Professor pelting people with snowballs. The famous "walking bed" story was in this period. Slumberland continued to make sporadic appearances until it returned for good on December 26, 1909.
Story-arcs included Befuddle Hall, a voyage to Mars (with a well-realized Martian civilization), and a trip around the world (including a tour of New York City).
Style
McCay experimented with the form of the comics page, its timing and pacing, the size and shape of its panels, perspective, and architectural and other detail.[4] From the second installment, McCay had the panel sizes and layouts conform to the action in the strip: as a forest of mushrooms grew, so did the panels, and the panels shrank as the mushrooms collapsed on Nemo. In an early Thanksgiving episode, the focal action of a giant turkey gobbling Nemo's house receives an enormous circular panel in the center of the page.[7] McCay also accommodated a sense of proportion with panel size and shape, showing elephants and dragons at a scale the reader could feel in proportion to the regular characters.[4] McCay controlled narrative pacing through variation or repetition, as with equally-sized panels whose repeated layouts and minute differences in movement conveyed a feeling of buildup to some climactic action.[4]
In his familiar Art Nouveau-influenced style, McCay outlined his characters in heavy blacks. Slumberland's ornate architecture was reminiscent of the architecture designed by McKim, Mead & White for the 1893 World's Columbian Exposition in Chicago, as well as Luna Park and Dreamland in Coney Island, and the Parisian Luxembourg Palace.[9]
McCay made imaginative use of color, sometimes changing the backgrounds' or characters' colors from panel to panel in a
For the first five months the pages were accompanied with captions beneath them,[7] and at first the captions were numbered.[12] In contrast to the high level of skill in the artwork, the dialogue in the speech balloons is crude, sometimes approaching illegibility,[13] and "disfigur[ing McCay's] otherwise flawless work", according to critic R. C. Harvey.[14] The level of effort and skill apparent in the title lettering highlights[15] what seems to be the little regard for the dialogue balloons, their content, and their placement in the visual composition.
McCay used ethnic stereotypes prominently in Little Nemo, as in the ill-tempered Irishman Flip, and the nearly-mute African Impie.[16]
Background
Winsor McCay (c. 1867–71 – 1934)[d] had worked prolifically as a commercial artist and cartoonist in carnivals and dime museums before he began working for newspapers and magazines in 1898. In 1903, he joined the staff of the New York Herald family of newspapers,[18] where he had success with comic strips such as Little Sammy Sneeze (1904–06).[19] and Dream of the Rarebit Fiend (1904–11)[e][18]
In 1905, McCay got "an idea from the Rarebit Fiend to please the little folk".[21] That October, the full-page Sunday strip Little Nemo in Slumberland debuted in the Herald.[3] Considered McCay's masterpiece,[22] its child protagonist, whose appearance was based on McCay's son Robert,[23] had fabulous dreams that would be interrupted with his awakening in the last panel. McCay experimented with the form of the comics page, its timing and pacing, the size and shape of its panels, perspective, architectural and other detail.[4]
Publication history
Little Nemo in Slumberland debuted on the last page of the Sunday comics section of
McCay left Hearst in May 1924[26] and returned to the Herald Tribune. He began Little Nemo in Slumberland afresh that August 3.[27] The new strip displayed the virtuoso technique of the old, but the panels were laid out in an unvarying grid. Nemo took a more passive role in the stories,[28] and there was no continuity.[29] The strip came to an end in January 1927,[27] as it was not popular with readers. Hearst executives had been trying to convince McCay to return to the American, and succeeded in 1927.[29] Due to the lack of the 1920s Nemo's success, the Herald Tribune signed over all copyrights to the strip to McCay for one dollar.[30]
In 1937, McCay's son Robert attempted to carry on his father's legacy by reviving Little Nemo.
In 1966, cartoonist Woody Gelman discovered the original artwork for many Little Nemo strips at a cartoon studio where McCay's son Bob had worked. In 1973, Gelman published a collection of Little Nemo strips in Italy.[33] His collection of McCay originals is preserved at the Billy Ireland Cartoon Library & Museum at Ohio State University.[34]
In 2005, collector Peter Maresca self-published a 21-×-16-inch (53 × 41 cm) volume of Nemo Sundays as Little Nemo in Slumberland: So Many Splendid Sundays! via his Sunday Press Books. The volume was large enough to reproduce the pages at their original size, as they appeared in newspapers. Restoration work took Maresca between five and twenty hours per page.[35] A second volume, Little Nemo in Slumberland: Many More Splendid Sundays!, appeared in 2008.[36]
Adaptations
Theatre
As early as 1905, several abortive attempts were made to put Little Nemo on stage. In summer 1907,
As part of an improvised story, Cawthorn introduced a mythical creature he called a "
Despite the show's success, it failed to make back its investment due to its enormous expenses,[40] and came to an end in December 1910.[41] In mid-2012 Toronto-based theatre company Frolick performed an adaptation of the strip into Adventures in Slumberland, a multimedia show featuring puppets large and small and a score that included as a refrain "Wake Up Little Nemo", set to the tune of The Everly Brothers' 1957 hit "Wake Up Little Susie".[44] Talespinner Children's Theatre in Cleveland, OH produced a scaled-down, "colorful and high-energy 45-minute"[45] adaptation in 2013, Adventures In Slumberland by David Hansen.
In March 2017, a short, one-act adaptation of the "Little Nemo" adventures was staged at Fordham University in New York City. The play, simply entitled Little Nemo in Slumberland, was written by Aladdin Lee Grant Rutledge Collar, and directed by student Peter McNally. The six person cast, as well as creative team, consisted of students and alums at the university.[46]
Film
McCay played an important role in the early history of animation. In 1911 he completed his first film, Winsor McCay, the Famous Cartoonist of the N.Y. Herald and His Moving Comics (also known as
In 1984, Arnaud Sélignac produced and directed a film titled
A joint American-Japanese feature-length film Little Nemo: Adventures in Slumberland was released in Japan in 1989 and in the United States in August 1992 from Hemdale Film Corporation, with contributions by Ray Bradbury, Chris Columbus, and Moebius,[50] and music by the Sherman Brothers. The story tells of a quest by Nemo and friends to rescue King Morpheus from the Nightmare King. The Princess is given a name, Camille, and Nemo has a pet flying squirrel named Icarus.[51] It received mixed reviews from critics, where it earned $11.4 million on a $35 million budget and was a box-office bomb, but it sold well on home video and has since developed a cult following.
A live-action film adaptation, Slumberland, directed by Francis Lawrence, was released in 2022. It features a gender-swapped version of the title character played by Marlow Barkley. Jason Momoa stars as a radically altered version of Flip, who is described as a "nine-foot tall creature that is half-man, half-beast, has shaggy fur and long curved tusks". The plot centers on Nemo and Flip traveling to Slumberland in search of the former's father.[52][53][54]
Opera
The Sarasota Opera commissioned composer Daron Hagen and librettist J. D. McClatchy to create an opera based on Little Nemo. Two casts of children alternated performances when it debuted in November 2012. The dreamlike nonlinear story told of Nemo, the Princess, and their comrades trying to prevent the Emperor of Sol and the Guardian of Dawn from bringing daylight to Slumberland. Special effects and shifting backgrounds were produced with projections onto a scaffolding of boxes.[55] The work was first performed on November 10 and 11, by members of the Sarasota Opera, Sarasota Youth Opera, Sarasota Prep Chorus, The Sailor Circus and students from Booker High school.
Other media
In 1990, Capcom produced a video game for the NES, titled Little Nemo: The Dream Master (known as Pajama Hero Nemo in Japan), a licensed game based on the 1989 film. The film would not see a US release until 1992, two years after the game's Japanese release, so the game is often thought to be a standalone adaptation of Little Nemo, not related to the film. An arcade game called simply Nemo was also released in 1990.[56] In 2021, a new game, titled Little Nemo and the Nightmare Fiends based on the original comic strip was launched on Kickstarter. It is developed by Chris Totten of Pie For Breakfast Studios and Benjamin Cole of PXLPLZ.[57] In 2022, a new game, titled Little Nemo and the Guardians of Slumberland based on the original comic strip was launched on Kickstarter. It is developed by Dave Mauro of DIE SOFT.[58]
Throughout the years, various pieces of Little Nemo merchandise have been produced. In 1941, Rand, McNally & Co. published a Little Nemo children's storybook. Little Nemo in Slumberland in 3-D was released by
Cultural influences
Little Nemo itself is influenced by children stories in general, and some French comic pages in particular.[59][60] Since its publishing, Little Nemo has had an influence on other artists, including Peter Newell (The Naps of Polly Sleepyhead), Frank King (Bobby Make-Believe), Clare Briggs (Danny Dreamer) or George McManus (Nibsy the Newsboy in Funny Fairyland). Through the Paris edition of the New York Herald, his influence reached France and other European countries.[61][62]
In children's literature, Maurice Sendak said that this strip inspired his book In the Night Kitchen, and William Joyce included several elements from Little Nemo in his children's book Santa Calls, including appearances by Flip and the walking bed. Another tribute to Little Nemo is the comic, then made into a short film, Little Remo in Pinchmeland, by Ellen Duthie and Daniela Martagón.
The character and themes from the comic strip Little Nemo were used in a song "Scenes from a Night's Dream" written by Tony Banks and Phil Collins of the progressive rock group Genesis on their 1978 recording, ...And Then There Were Three....[63]
A progressive rock group from Germany named Scara Brae also recorded a musical impression of the comic on their rare self-titled disc from 1981 (the track was actually recorded 2 years earlier). Their concept piece was revived on the second album by the Greek band Anger Department, titled The Strange Dreams of a Rarebit Fiend, again after a McCay-comic. Their Little Nemo was chosen for a theatre play, which was suggested for the cultural program for the Olympic Games in 2004.
In 1984, Italian comic artist Vittorio Giardino started producing a number of stories under the title Little Ego, a parodic adaptation of Little Nemo, in the shape of adult-oriented erotic comics. Brian Bolland's early comic strip Little Nympho in Slumberland employed a similar technique.
The bar in A Nightmare on Elm Street 3: Dream Warriors is called 'Little Nemo's'.[64]
The strip influenced
The
In 1989, teen comic book Power Pack ran an issue (#47) which paid direct homage to one of McCay's Nemo storylines, featuring a castle that was drawn sideways and Katie Power re-enacting a classic Nemo panel with a sideways-drawn hallway that served as a bottomless pit with the line "Don't fall in, y'hear?"
The video of the 1989 song for "Runnin' Down a Dream" by Tom Petty is directly inspired by Little Nemo in Slumberland by Winsor McCay, which features a drawing style reminiscent of McCay's and showing Petty and a character who resembles Flip travelling through Slumberland.
The band Queensrÿche paid homage to Little Nemo in their 1990 video Silent Lucidity.[citation needed]
In 1994–1995, French artist
In 2006, electronic artist Daedelus used Little Nemo artwork for his album Denies the Day's Demise.
The comic strip Cul de Sac includes a strip-within-the-strip, Little Neuro, a parody of Little Nemo. Neuro is a little boy who hardly ever leaves his bed.
In 2009, the Pittsburgh ToonSeum established its NEMO Award, given to notable individuals "for excellence in the cartoon arts". Recipients to date include veteran comic-book artist Ron Frenz,[66] editorial and comic-strip artist Dick Locher,[67] cartoonist and comics historian Trina Robbins,[68] and comics artist, editorial cartoonist and artists' rights advocate Jerry Robinson.[69]
On October 15, 2012, celebrating the 107th anniversary of the first Little Nemo story, Google displayed an interactive animated "Google Doodle" called "Little Nemo in Google-land" on its homepage. The doodle showed a typical Little Nemo adventure through a series of panels, each featuring a letter from the word "Google".[70] The doodle also ends in the same way as the comic strips, with Nemo falling from his bed.[71]
Eric Shanower and Gabriel Rodriguez revived the characters in 2014 in an IDW comic book series entitled Little Nemo: Return to Slumberland.[72] That same year, Locust Moon Press released a new anthology and Taschen published the complete series (1905–1926).
A comic strip Mutts has one of the strip's recurring characters, a naughty squirrel, "bonking" Nemo with an acorn, and wishing him "sweet dreams".[73]
Legacy
Comics historian R. C. Harvey has called McCay "the first original genius of the comic strip medium". Harvey claims that McCay's contemporaries lacked the skill to continue with his innovations, so that they were left for future generations to rediscover and build upon.[4] Cartoonist Robert Crumb called McCay a "genius" and one of his favorite cartoonists.[74] Art Spiegelman's In the Shadow of No Towers (2004) appropriated some of McCay's imagery, and included a page of Little Nemo in its appendix.[75] Federico Fellini read Little Nemo in the children's magazine Il corriere dei piccoli, and the strip was a "powerful influence" on the filmmaker, according to Fellini biographer Peter Bondanella.[76]
McCay's original artwork has been poorly preserved.[75] McCay insisted on having his originals returned to him, and a large collection survived him, but much of it was destroyed in a fire in the late 1930s. His wife was unsure how to handle the surviving pieces, so his son took on the responsibility and moved the collection into his own house.[31] The family sold off some of the artwork when they were in need of cash. Responsibility for it passed to Mendelsohn, then later to daughter Marion. By the early twenty-first century, most of McCay's surviving artwork remained in family hands.[77]
Notes
- ^ Wikimedia Commons has a file available for this strip (October 15, 1905).
- ^ Wikimedia Commons has a file available for this strip (November 11, 1905).
- ^ Wikimedia Commons has a file available for The full version of this strip (November 26, 1905).
- ^ Different accounts have given McCay's birth year as 1867, 1869, and 1871. His birth records are not extant.[17]
- ^ Rarebit Fiend was revived between 1911 and 1913 under other titles, such as Midsummer Day Dreams and It Was Only a Dream.[20]
- ^ Keith had partnered with Proctor in 1906.
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External links
- Little Nemo and other public-domain McCay strips for download at The Comic Strip Library. Archived from the original on September 5, 2015.
- Heer, Jeet (Spring 2006), "Little Nemo in Comicsland: Winsor McCay's influence on comics", Virginia Quarterly Review, archived from the original on September 6, 2015.
- Little Nemo in Slumberland at Don Markstein's Toonopedia. Archived from the original on November 16, 2015.