Ebook: Wide awake in Slumberland: fantasy, mass culture, and modernism in the art of Winsor McCay

Cartoonist Winsor McCay is celebrated for the skillful draftmanship and inventive design sense he displayed in the comic strips 'Little Nemo in Slumberland' and 'Dream of the Rarebit Fiend'. McCay crafted narratives of anticipation, abundance, and unfulfilled longing. This book explores McCay's interest in dream imagery in relation to the larger societal preoccupation with fantasy that dominated the popular culture of early twentieth century urban America, and demonstrates the artist's sophisticated blending and remixing of multiple mass cultural forms.