Winsor McCay (September 26, 1867(?) – July 26, 1934) was an American cartoonist and animator. Events 46 BC - Julius Caesar dedicates a Year 1867 ( MDCCCLXVII) was a Common year starting on Tuesday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian calendar (or a Common year starting Events 657 - Battle of Siffin. 811 - Battle of Pliska; Byzantine Emperor Nicephorus Year 1934 ( MCMXXXIV) was a Common year starting on Monday (link will display full 1934 calendar of the Gregorian calendar. A cartoonist is a person who specializes in drawing Cartoons Traditionally much of this work was and still is humorous and is intended primarily for entertainment purposes An animator is an Artist who creates multiple images called frames and Key frames that form an illusion of movement called Animation when rapidly displayed
A prolific artist, McCay's pioneering early animated films far outshone the work of his contemporaries, and set a standard followed by Walt Disney and others in later decades. Walter Elias Disney (December 5 1901 – December 15 1966 was a multiple Academy Award -winning American Film producer, director, Screenwriter His two best-known creations are the newspaper comic strip Little Nemo in Slumberland, which ran from 1905 to 1914, and the animated cartoon Gertie the Dinosaur, which he created in 1914. Little Nemo is the main Fictional character in a series of weekly Comic strips by Winsor McCay (1871-1934 that appeared in the New York Herald Gertie the Dinosaur is a 1914 short animated film by Winsor McCay that inspired many generations of animators to bring their cartoons to
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Biography
McCay was the son of Robert McKay (later changed to McCay) and Janet Murray McKay; Robert at various times worked as a teamster, a grocer, and a real estate agent. Winsor's exact place and year of birth are uncertain — he claimed to have been born in Spring Lake, Michigan in 1871, but his gravestone says 1869, and census reports state that he was born in Canada in 1867. Spring Lake is a village in Ottawa County in the US state of Michigan. Country to "Dominion of Canada" or "Canadian Federation" or anything else please read the Talk Page He was originally named Zenas Winsor McKay, in honor of his father's employer, Zenas G. Winsor. He later dropped the name Zenas.
In 1886, McCay's parents sent him to Cleary's Business College in Ypsilanti, Michigan to learn to be a businessman. Cleary University is a business university with campuses in Ann Arbor and Howell, Michigan (Livingston Campus Ypsilanti (ˌɪpsɨˈlænti Ǐp'-sǐ-lǎn-tē but often /ˌjɪpsɨˈlænti/ by outsiders is a city in Washtenaw County in the U While in Ypsilanti, he also received his only formal art training, from John Goodison of Michigan State Normal College (now known as Eastern Michigan University). Eastern Michigan University is a comprehensive co-educational Public university located in Ypsilanti Michigan. Goodison taught him the strict application of the fundamentals of perspective, which he put to significant use later in his career. Perspective (from Latin perspicere to see through in the graphic arts such as drawing is an approximate representation on a flat surface (such as paper of an image as it is perceived Goodison, formerly a glass stainer, also influenced McCay's bold use of color. For the Blackford Oakes novel see Stained Glass (novel The term stained glass refers either to the material of coloured Glass or to the art
In 1889, McCay moved to Chicago, intending to study at the Art Institute of Chicago, but due to lack of money had to find employment instead. Chicago (ʃɪˈkɑːgoʊ is the largest City by population in the state of Illinois and the American Midwest of the United States. The Art Institute of Chicago is one of America's premier Fine art museums He worked for the National Printing and Engraving Company, producing woodcuts for circus and theatrical posters. Two years later, he moved to Cincinnati, Ohio and went to work as an artist for Kohl and Middleton's Vine Street Dime Museum. Dime Museums were institutions that were briefly popular at the end of the 19th century in the United States. While in Cincinnati he married Maude Leonore Dufour.
Works
McCay's first major comic strip series was Tales of the Jungle Imps by Felix Fiddle. Forty-three installments were published from January to November of 1903, in the Cincinnati Enquirer. Year 1903 ( MCMIII) was a Common year starting on Thursday (link will display calendar of the Gregorian calendar or a Common year starting The Cincinnati Enquirer a daily morning Newspaper, is the highest-circulation print publication in Greater Cincinnati ( Ohio) and Northern The strip was based on poems by George Randolph Chester, then a reporter and editor at the Enquirer. The stories concerned jungle creatures and the ways that they adapted to a hostile world, with individual titles such as How the Elephant Got His Trunk and How the Ostrich Got So Tall.
His strips Little Nemo and Dreams of a Rarebit Fiend were both set in the dreams of their characters and featured fantasy art that attempted to capture the look and feel of dreams. Little Nemo is the main Fictional character in a series of weekly Comic strips by Winsor McCay (1871-1934 that appeared in the New York Herald Dreams of a Rarebit Fiend was a Newspaper Comic strip written and drawn by Winsor McCay beginning in 1904 McCay's cartoons were never overwhelmingly popular, but always had a strong following because of his expressive graphic style. Newspaper pages were physically much larger in that time and McCay usually had a half a page to work with. For fantasy art in comics, his only rival was Lyonel Feininger, who went on to have a career in the fine arts after his comics days were over. Fantasy art is a genre of Art that depicts Lyonel Charles Feininger ( July 17 1871 – January 13 1956) was a German-American painter and caricaturist
McCay also created a number of animated short films, in which every single frame of each cartoon (with each film requiring thousands of frames) was hand-drawn by McCay and his assistant which he occasionally had. McCay went on vaudeville tours with his films. Vaudeville was a Genre of variety entertainment prevalent on the stage in the United States and Canada, from the early 1880s He presented lectures and did drawings; then he interacted with his animated films, performing such tricks as holding his hand out to "pet" his animated creations.
Laid out with exquisite detail in a manner that would only be matched during the heights of Walt Disney's cartoons of the 1930s, the star of McCay's groundbreaking animated film Gertie the Dinosaur is classified by film and animation historians as the first cartoon character created especially for film to display a unique, realistic "personality". Walter Elias Disney (December 5 1901 – December 15 1966 was a multiple Academy Award -winning American Film producer, director, Screenwriter Gertie the Dinosaur is a 1914 short animated film by Winsor McCay that inspired many generations of animators to bring their cartoons to In the film, Gertie causes trouble and cries when she is scolded, and finally she gives McCay himself a ride on her back as he steps into the movie picture.
In addition to a series of cartoons based on his popular "rarebit" gags, McCay also created The Sinking of the Lusitania, a depiction of the attack on the maritime ship. World War I (abbreviated WWI; also known as the First World War, the Great War, and the War to End All A Liberty Bond was a special type of War bond that was sold in the United States to support the allied cause in World War I. The cartoon contained a message that was meant to inspire America into joining World War I. World War I (abbreviated WWI; also known as the First World War, the Great War, and the War to End All
Selected comic strips by McCay
- Tales of the Jungle Imps by Felix Fiddle (1903)
- Little Sammy Sneeze (1904 to 1906)
- Dream of a Rarebit Fiend (1904 to 1913)
- The Story of Hungry Henrietta (1905)
- A Pilgrim's Progress (1905 to 1910)
- Little Nemo in Slumberland (1905 to 1914)
- Poor Jake (1909 to 1911)
Filmography
- Little Nemo (1911)
- Winsor McCay, the Famous Cartoonist of the N. Dreams of a Rarebit Fiend was a Newspaper Comic strip written and drawn by Winsor McCay beginning in 1904 Little Nemo is the main Fictional character in a series of weekly Comic strips by Winsor McCay (1871-1934 that appeared in the New York Herald Little Nemo is the main Fictional character in a series of weekly Comic strips by Winsor McCay (1871-1934 that appeared in the New York Herald Y. Herald and His Moving Comics (1911)
- How a Mosquito Operates (1912)
- Gertie the Dinosaur (1914)
- The Sinking of the Lusitania (1918)
- The Dream of a Rarebit Fiend (1921)
- Dreams of the Rarebit Fiend: The Pet (1921)
- Dreams of the Rarebit Fiend: The Flying House (1921)
- Dreams of the Rarebit Fiend: Bug Vaudeville (1921)
- Gertie on Tour (1921)
- Flip's Circus (1921)
- The Centaurs (1921)
- The Midsummer's Nightmare (1922)
Books and collections
- Dreams of a Rarebit Fiend Dover, ISBN 0-486-21347-1
- Little Nemo in the Palace of Ice and Further Adventures Dover, ISBN 0-486-23234-4
- The Complete Little Nemo in Slumberland, Vol. Gertie the Dinosaur is a 1914 short animated film by Winsor McCay that inspired many generations of animators to bring their cartoons to The Sinking of the Lusitania, released in 1918, is an animated short film by American artist Winsor McCay. Dreams of a Rarebit Fiend was a Newspaper Comic strip written and drawn by Winsor McCay beginning in 1904 The Centaurs was an Animated film produced by Winsor McCay between 1918 and 1921 I: 1905-1907 Fantagraphics ISBN 0-930193-63-6
- The Complete Little Nemo in Slumberland, Vol. II: 1907-1908 Fantagraphics ISBN 0-930193-64-4
- The Complete Little Nemo in Slumberland, Vol. III: 1908-1910 Fantagraphics
- The Complete Little Nemo in Slumberland, Vol. IV: 1910-1911 Fantagraphics
- The Complete Little Nemo in Slumberland, Vol. V: In the Land of Wonderful Dreams, Part 1: 1911-12 Fantagraphics
- The Complete Little Nemo in Slumberland, Vol. VI: In the Land of Wonderful Dreams, Part 2: 1913-14 Fantagraphics ISBN 1-56097-130-4
- Little Nemo 1905-1914 Taschen, ISBN 3-8228-6300-9
- The Best of Little Nemo in Slumberland Stewart, Tabori, & Chang, ISBN 1-55670-647-2
- Little Nemo in Slumberland: So Many Splendid Sundays Sunday Press ISBN 0-9768885-0-5
- Winsor McCay: Early Works, Vol. 1 Checker, ISBN 0-9741664-0-5 (“Tales of the Rarebit Fiend” and “Little Sammy Sneeze”)
- Winsor McCay: Early Works, Vol. 2 Checker, ISBN 0-9741664-7-2 (More “Tales of the Rarebit Fiend” and “Little Sammy Sneeze,” “Centaurs,” “Hungry Henrietta,” and editorial illustrations. )
- Winsor McCay: Early Works, Vol. 3 Checker, ISBN 0-9741664-9-9 (More “Tales of the Rarebit Fiend” (1907), “Little Sammy Sneeze,” “A Pilgrim’s Progress,” (1907) and editorial illustrations from New York period. )
- Winsor McCay: Early Works, Vol. 4 Checker, ISBN 0-9753808-1-8 (more Dream of the Rarebit Fiend (early 1908), A Pilgrim’s Progress (early 1908), various Little Sammy Sneezes, and New York American editorial cartoons. )
- Winsor McCay: Early Works, Vol. 5 Checker, ISBN 0-9753808-2-6 (Dream of the Rarebit Fiend (late 1908), A Pilgrim’s Progress (late 1908), Phoolish Phillip (all), Hungry Henrietta (all), and New York American editorial cartoons. )
- Winsor McCay: Early Works, Vol. 6 Checker, ISBN 1-933160-05-5 (“Mr Goodenough”, Dream of the Rarebit Fiend (late 1908), A Pilgrim’s Progress (late 1908), and New York American editorial cartoons. )
- Winsor McCay: Early Works, Vol. 7 Checker, ISBN 1-933160-05-5 (illustrations from New York editorial period, and collection of comic strips. )
- Winsor McCay: Early Works, Vol. 8 Checker, ISBN 1-933160-06-3
- Daydreams and Nightmares Fantagraphics, ISBN 1-56097-569-5
- Little Sammy Sneeze Sunday Press ISBN 0-97688-854-8
References
- John Canemaker (2005). Winsor McCay: His Life and Art. Harry N. Abrams, Inc. ISBN 0-8109-5941-0.
- Ohio State University (1 June 2006). "Cartoon Library Acquires McCay Collection". University Libraries New Notes.
- Leonard Maltin (1987). Of Mice and Magic: A History of American Animated Cartoons; Revised and Updated. Plume Books. ISBN 0-452-25993-2.
- "The Cartoonist Group: Background About Winsor McCay;".
External links
- Winsor McCay on Internet Movie Database
- (French) Little Nemo in Slumberland Anniversary Special
- Winsor McCay's The Centaurs.
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