Little Nemo in Slumberland — Omaha Sunday Bee, March 9, 1913

This page from The Omaha Sunday Bee lists Winsor McCay's Little Nemo in Slumberland as part of the 'Made-in-Nebraska' Auditorium show program — a reminder that by 1913 McCay's dreaming boy had become a genuine cultural property, adapted for stage and screen. McCay, working at the New York Herald from 1905, essentially invented the expressive possibilities of the Sunday color page: architecturally expanding panels, dream-logic perspective shifts, and a protagonist who woke the moment each strip reached its visual climax. No racial caricature appears on this particular page. The Sunday supplement McCay helped define is the direct ancestor of the comic book — folded, stapled, and sold independently by the late 1930s.