Little Nemo in Slumberland

Winsor McCay’s Little Nemo in Slumberland launched in 1906 with Duffield & Company, a single-issue comic that distilled his groundbreaking newspaper strip into book form. This pioneering fantasy follows a young boy’s nightly dream-journeys through a surreal, architecturally wondrous realm, rendered in McCay’s lush, Art Nouveau-inspired panels. Though brief in its original release, the work endures as a landmark of early comics, showcasing McCay’s mastery of sequential storytelling and his ability to turn the medium into a canvas for pure, imaginative wonder.