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jasminenoack's review
4.0
Okay I added this book to goodreads.com.
I am not smart enough to know how to add a picture to this review.
this is the book:
if someone smarter than me can make that the book cover it would make me happy.
Now I grew up mildly obsessed with the movie little nemo in slumberland, to the point that I was actively annoyed that finding nemo had nothing to do with little nemo. Some days I wonder if this actually comes down to being lucky enough to have a brother who was just enough older that he caught all the really cool things that happened when I was mildly too young to know what I was missing and keep them around. Perhaps I was lucky enough to have a brother that was afraid of the mask, ET, roger rabbit and jurassic park so he was into things like nemo, wizards, the dark crystal and startrek the voyage home instead. Notice the movies I liked that he was afraid of tended to have come out after we were born, however the movies which my brother liked were mostly out before or around the time we were actually born. Arno has always had a good sense of history. The point of all of that being I owe the fact that I even went looking for this book to my brother.
Now how did I end up with a book from 1945 instead of one of the many more recent books? well I didn't have a hundred dollars to spend on nemo so I bought something on amazon marketplace that I wasn't positive what was that was 20. And it was sooooooo worth it. I love nemo. I had actually never read the comic strips before. We weren't a big comics family. We had old movies, radio shows (THE SHADOW KNOWS!!), books, but I only remember one comic book the entire time I was growing up.
But sunday morning comics weren't a big deal. My aunt use to have family circus strips on her fridge:
specifically one about modays child is full of something or other tuesdays child... etc.
The point being I never really learned the greatness of sunday comics my mom always talked about he little orphan annie comics which I haven't ever read and these days I read the indie graphic novels periodically.
But little nemo is different. Every strip ends with nemo waking up. The text gets messed up when he runs out of room in a bubble. It is a little like the guy next to you in your class wrote the comic which is if nothing else a really nice feeling.
The book is a bit out of order but it falls together like amelia gray, you know you remember oh this was happening 10 pages ago. It's sad it isn't still around because it would be a great promotional piece for he larger books, which I still can't afford, but perhaps now I'll look into getting them from the library.
this is the book:
if someone smarter than me can make that the book cover it would make me happy.
Now I grew up mildly obsessed with the movie little nemo in slumberland, to the point that I was actively annoyed that finding nemo had nothing to do with little nemo. Some days I wonder if this actually comes down to being lucky enough to have a brother who was just enough older that he caught all the really cool things that happened when I was mildly too young to know what I was missing and keep them around. Perhaps I was lucky enough to have a brother that was afraid of the mask, ET, roger rabbit and jurassic park so he was into things like nemo, wizards, the dark crystal and startrek the voyage home instead. Notice the movies I liked that he was afraid of tended to have come out after we were born, however the movies which my brother liked were mostly out before or around the time we were actually born. Arno has always had a good sense of history. The point of all of that being I owe the fact that I even went looking for this book to my brother.
Now how did I end up with a book from 1945 instead of one of the many more recent books? well I didn't have a hundred dollars to spend on nemo so I bought something on amazon marketplace that I wasn't positive what was that was 20. And it was sooooooo worth it. I love nemo. I had actually never read the comic strips before. We weren't a big comics family. We had old movies, radio shows (THE SHADOW KNOWS!!), books, but I only remember one comic book the entire time I was growing up.
But sunday morning comics weren't a big deal. My aunt use to have family circus strips on her fridge:
specifically one about modays child is full of something or other tuesdays child... etc.
The point being I never really learned the greatness of sunday comics my mom always talked about he little orphan annie comics which I haven't ever read and these days I read the indie graphic novels periodically.
But little nemo is different. Every strip ends with nemo waking up. The text gets messed up when he runs out of room in a bubble. It is a little like the guy next to you in your class wrote the comic which is if nothing else a really nice feeling.
The book is a bit out of order but it falls together like amelia gray, you know you remember oh this was happening 10 pages ago. It's sad it isn't still around because it would be a great promotional piece for he larger books, which I still can't afford, but perhaps now I'll look into getting them from the library.
lawrenwithaw's review
Winsor McCay doesn't need praise from me, but I'll give him some anyway. He is a national treasure, and Little Nemo is the greatest comic strip of all time. This art is over a century old, and it's still difficult to find comparable work. The first comic master and a founding father of animation, McCay is one of my all time favorite artists, and I recommend his work to everybody.
This edition is quite nice. It's non-linear, but it collects the work into it's different strengths, with each chapter introduced by experts such as Art Spiegelman, Charles Schulz, Chuck Jones and Bill Watterson. My only complaint with Little Nemo is how difficult it is to own. This is a Best Of collection from the library, but someday I'd like to have a complete collection.
This edition is quite nice. It's non-linear, but it collects the work into it's different strengths, with each chapter introduced by experts such as Art Spiegelman, Charles Schulz, Chuck Jones and Bill Watterson. My only complaint with Little Nemo is how difficult it is to own. This is a Best Of collection from the library, but someday I'd like to have a complete collection.
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