Winsor McCay is regarded by many as the first great master of both the comic strip and the animated cartoon. He is best known for his strip Little Nemo in Slumberland, whose visual elegance and... Read full biography
Winsor McCay is regarded by many as the first great master of both the comic strip and the animated cartoon. He is best known for his strip Little Nemo in Slumberland, whose visual elegance and thematic originality set a high watermark never surpassed in the medium. Born Winsor Zenic McCay in... Read full biography
Winsor McCay is regarded by many as the first great master of both the comic strip and the animated cartoon. He is best known for his strip Little Nemo in Slumberland, whose visual elegance and thematic originality set a high watermark never surpassed in the medium. Born Winsor Zenic McCay in Spring Lake, Michigan, in either 1869 or 1871, he studied art briefly in 1888 at Ypsilanti Normal College. Unable to afford further art instruction, McCay found work painting signs and illustrating for... Read full biography
Winsor McCay is regarded by many as the first great master of both the comic strip and the animated cartoon. He is best known for his strip Little Nemo in Slumberland, whose visual elegance and thematic originality set a high watermark never surpassed in the medium. Born Winsor Zenic McCay in Spring Lake, Michigan, in either 1869 or 1871, he studied art briefly in 1888 at Ypsilanti Normal College. Unable to afford further art instruction, McCay found work painting signs and illustrating for theatrical productions and traveling circuses, an exposure to fantasy illustration that was to prepare him for his later career in the comics. In 1889, he went to Cincinnati and created posters for a carnival. He became a full-time employee of the Vine... Read full biography
Winsor McCay is regarded by many as the first great master of both the comic strip and the animated cartoon. He is best known for his strip Little Nemo in Slumberland, whose visual elegance and thematic originality set a high watermark never surpassed in the medium. Born Winsor Zenic McCay in Spring Lake, Michigan, in either 1869 or 1871, he studied art briefly in 1888 at Ypsilanti Normal College. Unable to afford further art instruction, McCay found work painting signs and illustrating for theatrical productions and traveling circuses, an exposure to fantasy illustration that was to prepare him for his later career in the comics. In 1889, he went to Cincinnati and created posters for a carnival. He became a full-time employee of the Vine Street Dime Museum, drawing freaks so dramatically that the editor of the Cincinnati Times Star... Read full biography
Winsor McCay - Artist Info
About Winsor McCay: Books
Books & Publications (20)
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The Animated Bestiary: Animals, Cartoons, and Culture
2009
Wells, Paul
223 pages (color)
The Artists Bluebook 34,000 North American Artists to March 2005
2005
AskART.com Inc. - Dunbier, Lonnie Pierson (Editor)
479 pages
Davenport's Art Reference: The Gold Edition
2005
Davenport, Ray
2,421 pages
Masters of Animation
2001
Grant, John
208 pages (color)
The Illustrator in America, 1860-2000 The Society of Illustrators
2001
Reed, Walt
452 pages (color)
Who Was Who in American Art, 1564-1975: Three Volumes
1999
Falk, Peter Hastings (Editor)
3,724 pages
100 Years of American Newspaper Comics An Illustrated Encyclopedia
1996
Horn, Maurice (editor)
414 pages (color)
Animation, Caricature...Cartoons in the U S A and Canada/A Bibliography
1994
Lent, John A
415 pages
Cartooning for Suffrage
1994
Sheppard, Alice; Elisabeth Israels Perry (Intro.)
276 pages
Dictionary of the Avant-Gardes
1993
Kostelanetz, Richard
246 pages
The Encyclopedia of American Comics From 1897 to the Present
1990
Goulart, Ron (Editor)
408 pages (color)
The Smithsonian Collection of Newspaper Comics
1988
Blackbeard, Bill and Martin Williams
334 pages (color)
Winsor McCay His Life and Art
1987
Canemaker, John
223 pages (color)
Who Was Who in American Art: Artists Active Between 1898-1947
1985
Falk, Peter Hastings (Editor)
707 pages
Treasury of American Pen-and-Ink Illustration 1881 to 1938
1982
Johnson, Fridolf
149 pages
Turn-of-the-Century America Paintings, Graphics, Photographs 1890-1910 (Exhibition catalog)
1977
Hills, Patricia
194 pages (color)
The Image of America in Caricature & Cartoon (Exhibition catalog)
1976
Tyler, Ron
228 pages (color)
Comic Art in America
1959
Becker, Stephen
387 pages
The Comics
1947
Waugh, Coulton
360 pages (color)
Mallet's Index of Artists: International-Biographical Two Volumes: Includes 1940 Index