I wanted you to see this wonderful example of the Little Nemo In Slumberland comic strip – if you click on it you can get it big enough to read the words in the speech bubbles. Unfortunately they’re in Dutch (where are you, TonNL?) but I had an enjoyable time on a translation website finding out what they said.
There’s a Wikipedia page about Winsor McCay (that’s where I found the picture) and also one about Little Nemo. So if you like it you can find out more yourself! I’m so glad I was a bit bored at work the other day and started to investigate where the style of the Runnin’ Down A Dream video (see previous post for Day 17) had come from. You can see it’s the same bed, at the end. Now that I’ve seen this picture, though, I’m sorry they didn’t do the video in colour.

TFD – we love Winsor McCay!We have a whole book of his beautiful and crazy slumberland cartoons. Maurice Sendak learned A LOT from them, I think.
He made some beautiful early animated films, too. Mad genius for sure!
Oh good – I’ll have a look at that book, then, when I come round for the savoury pies and margaritas.
Perfect! Looking forward to it.