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1869/71 Spring Lake, Michigan - 1934. Known for: Comic strip, animated cartoon.
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