Daydreams and Nightmares

About this book

by Windsor McCay A fantasist of the first rank McCay was a key pioneer in the histories of both comics and animation. He had a fascination with dreams that extended beyond his newspaper strip Little Nemo In Slumberland and it was a fascination as compelling as that of Freud Jung and Adlers as proven in the pages of Daydreams & Nightmares. McCays dream-inspired strips illustrations and cartoons feature rarebit-induced nightmares playful "what-ifs " moralistic panoramas pictorial allegories and other fantastic visions. The book spans the years 1898-1934 the bulk of McCays career. McCays world was the world of playfulness and whimsy that most leave behind in youth and encounter again only in dreams; Daydreams & Nightmares is a tour through that world.