Nemo’s creator Winsor McCay (1867/1871 – 1934) was a founding figure in the modern American entertainment industry, above all with his revolutionary comics, which set standards for panel layout and storytelling technique, timing and pacing, and architectural and other detail that left an inestimable influence on subsequent artists, including Robert Crumb and Federico Fellini.Winsor McCay: The Complete Little Nemo 1905–1927 collects, for the very first time, and in full, glorious color, all 549 episodes of Little Nemo. In the illustrated accompanying volume, art historian and comics expert Alexander Braun places Winsor McCay’s life and work within the cultural history of the U.S. media and entertainment industry, and explores the immense art historical value of McCay’s dream narrative. At once an adventure story, visual delight, and piece of cultural history, this publication is a tremendous monument to one of the most innovative pioneers—and one of the most intrepid explorers—of comic history.
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The devastating events of the First World War were captured in myriad photographs on all sides of the front. Since then, thousands of books of black-and-white photographs of the war have been published as all nations endeavour to comprehend the scale and the carnage of the “greatest catastrophe of the 20th century”. Far less familiar are the rare colour images of the First World War, taken at the time by a small group of photographers pioneering recently developed autochrome technology.
Onlangs kocht ik op een boekenmarkt een boek van een halve eeuw oud. Thuisgekomen analyseerde ik nog eens wat mij precies had besloten dit boek te kopen. Dat de menselijke motieven zelden enkelvoudig zijn, weet ik al het langste deel van mijn leven, dus zocht ik naar verschillende motieven. Ik kwam tot drie: 1. het boek als fetisj uit 1965 2. het onderwerp: Amerika 3. de schrijver: 












