(For more on McCay’s work and legacy, I can’t recommend Winsor McCay : His Life and Art enough.) Herald and His Moving Comics, also referred to simply as Little Nemo, is commonly considered one of the first bits of true animation ever created, exploring the frontiers of a then-nascent storytelling medium that we have now grown to take for granted. Winsor McCay, the Famous Cartoonist of the N.Y. Stuart Blackman, of Enchanted Drawing fame, co-directed a short silent film - though, at 10 minutes, it was practically feature-length by the standards of the early cinema era - about the process of creating comics. Upon the series end in print, McCay and J. His celebrated Little Nemo comic strip appeared in the New York Herald and New York American newspapers between 19. Cartoonist and artist Winsor McCay (1869-1964) is often considered one of the fathers of true animation, pioneering the drawn image in film and influencing iconic creators for generations to come, from Walt Disney to Moebius to Bill Watterson.
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