See You in the Funny Papers (NY Times)
Posted by Bobby Kuechenmeister on October 13, 2006 
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Comments(0) His strip also conveyed a Midwesterner’s goggle-eyed perspective on the metropolis. “Little Nemo in Slumberland,” which took over The Herald’s Sunday supplement cover in 1905, married something of Muybridge’s stop-action photography with Lewis Carroll to invent a phantasmagoric vision that guided a viewer’s eye seamlessly across differently shaped candied panels. They magically blended to make a collective cogent abstraction out of the page: the essence of comics art. -Michael Kimmelman
[Thanks to the Comix-Scholars-List and Dr. Stephanie Kerschbaum. I knew Winsor McCay sounded familiar to me and then I remembered how much work Gene Kannenberg, Jr. does with McCay and Nemo. BK]
category: Comics, Popular Culture