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Youngsters who knew the late Winsor Zenic McCay at all remember him for his elaborate editorial cartoons in Sunday Hearstpapers. "Cartoons" they were in subject only. In workmanship, detail, and fantasy they suggested to some critics the exciting drawings of Gustave Dore. On such a Brisbanal theme as the triumph of Knowledge over Prejudice, Artist McCay could produce a startling half-page conception of titanic struggle...
Oldsters remember Winsor McCay less for his editorial drawings than for "Little Nemo," whose Adventures in Slumberland were a high spot of Sunday comic supplements 25 years ago. Nemo was a sweet-faced little boy supposedly inspired by Artist McCay's son Robert Winsor. He moved through a fabulous world of clouds and seas and palaces, drawn in delicate color. His companions, natives of Slumberland, were a lovely little Princess, daughter of King Morpheus; an officious, green-faced fellow named Flip who always wore a yellow top hat and held a long cigar between his huge lips; a grass...
Nemo disappeared from the comic sections in 1913. This week he appears again in Manhattan and Chicago Hearstpapers, drawn by Son Robert Winsor McCay. At 38, R. Winsor McCay looks much less like the Nemo for which he was a model than like his late father, who died last summer at 62. Also like his father, he always wears his hat at work. Although his pen lacks the elder McCay's magic for intricate background and breath-taking perspective, Son Winsor has faithfully copied the characters of Impie, Flip, the Princess, has made Nemo much sturdier, much more competent...
Other Hearst cartoonists hammering away at familiar Hearst themes include Walter Joseph Enright, portrayer of the "Jackass Rabbit Congressman" who refused to accept Mr. Hearst's sales tax; Winsor McCay, nightmare man; and Nelson Harding, a Pulitzer Prize-winner when on the Brooklyn Eagle...
Outstanding features of Newsdom are articles and drawings contributed without pay by famed (working) newsmen and artists. "Guest artist" of the first issue is Winsor McCay. "Guest colyumist" is Hearst's Idwal Jones. "Guest story-teller'' is Martin Green, long of the World...