"His fantasy strips. . . are pinnacles of drafting, design, and formal play." — The Week, January 2002. Only edition in full original colors. 31 full strips from 1907 cover dream adventures in great comic strip.
No, it's not new material. For the person asking. This is an affordable fairly large color reproduction of a story McCay told over consecutive weeks in newspapers during the turn of the century. Sometimes McCay would draw stand alone pages. Sometimes Little Nemo would dream a connected story over weeks - but of course he would always wake up at the end of exch strip. This is one of those. The book uses original collected color newspapers from the turn of the 1900s so the quality isn't perfect though it's still very impessive. You don't need this if you are going to get the complete collections but the cost is low and it's a perfect way to see if you enjoy this work by catching a continuing story from a high point in quality and imagination.
Good introduction This is a good book if you want to get a feel for Little Nemo, but not if you want to have a complete collection of the strips. The artwork is beautiful and the storyline is great, unfortunately, the editor has taken out some parts of the story, so near the end it starts to become kind of clippy, so to speak.
Hmm, but is it new material? Well, I haven't actually bought this book. I was trying to figure out whether it was material that was in the complete collection (ISBN 3-8228-6300-9), or an independant graphic novel. My only thought on that is that I recognize the cover art from the aforementioned collection, which might help some of you in deciding.
A great first step into a larger world... Windsor McCay is one of my favorite artists, and I was exuberent when I found out there was a book collecting some of Nemo's adventures. Although not as comprehensive as the more expensive "Complete" books, The Palace of Ice is a great way to see if you like Little Nemo, or not. And if you do, and own the complete Little Nemo series, I still recomend buying this book.
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