Overview
Winsor McCay, the creator of Little Nemo in Slumberland, is internationally renowned as a pioneer in comics and animation. But author Ulrich Merkl's dedicated sleuthing has unearthed a never-published strip by McCay that was lost following the artist's untimely death. Titled simply Dino, it opens a surprising new window into McCay's life and work and showcases his exquisitely beautiful and delicate delineations (exactingly reproduced from the original art). Merkl explores the influences McCay brought to the strip-including McCay's own Gertie the Dinosaur animated shorts, the animation in 1933's King Kong, and the growth of New York City from the Holland Tunnel to the Empire State Building -and traces our love of dinosaurs and monster movies down through the decades. Breathtakingly designed, each page of this deluxe oversize volume is overflowing with amazing imagery, with more than 650 photographs and illustrations (more than 250 in color) - most of them seen here for the first time in a century! An essential volume for everyone interested in the development of the comic strip - and our never-ending fascination with dinosaurs!
Full Product Details
Author: Ulrich Merkl ,
Winsor McCay ,
Ulrich Merkl
Publisher: Fantagraphics
Imprint: Fantagraphics
Dimensions:
Width: 30.30cm
, Height: 3.30cm
, Length: 40.60cm
Weight: 2.640kg
ISBN: 9781606998403
ISBN 10: 1606998404
Pages: 298
Publication Date: 26 November 2015
Recommended Age: From 16
Audience:
General/trade
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General
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active
Availability: Out of stock
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Reviews
Like dinosaurs, this elaborate book is gigantic and wondrous. Dinomania is perhaps the most comprehensive collection of dinosaur-related art, comics, and memorabilia ever published. Hundreds of rare comics, paintings, illustrations, photos, and movie stills deliver so many eyeball jolts that the head swims. Constructed around this collection, there are meticulous timelines, notes, and informative writing. Merkl designed the book as well, giving it an eccentric, mad genius quality -- you've never seen a book like this before. You don't read Dinomania as much as let it stampede.--Paul Tumey The Comics Journal
Author Information
Winsor McCay (1869-1934) was a pioneer of the comic strip (Little Nemo in Slumberland) and one of the founding fathers of animation (Gertie the Dinosaur). His work is enormously influential in both fields and directly inspired Walt Disney, Chuck Jones, Federico Fellini, Art Spiegelman, Carl Barks, Maurice Sendak, and Robert Crumb, to name just a few. Ulrich Merkl is an art historian living in Germany. In 2007, he self-published The Complete Dream of the Rarebit Fiend (1904-1913), for which he collected and digitally restored hundreds of Winsor McCay's strips, one by one. He was nominated for a Eisner award.
