![]() ![]() ![]() Instead, his mind overflows with exotic exploits, wonderful creatures straight out of the circuses McCay loved, and companions to share it all with. Nemo rarely gets a good night's sleep, but he certainly isn't tormented by Freudian angst. With Little Nemo in Slumberland, his groundbreaking newspaper comic, he presented a dream world that was as sublime as it was reassuring to his Edwardian readers. He didn't bring intellectual theories to the fight, but something more potent: beauty. It was 1905, hot on the heels of Freud's supremely unsettling The Interpretation of Dreams, and the cartoonist was Winsor McCay. Once, a cartoonist went to battle for dreamland. ![]() Your purchase helps support NPR programming. Close overlay Buy Featured Book Title Little Nemo Subtitle Dream Another Dream Author Chris Stevens, Andrew Carl, and Josh O'Neill ![]()
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