I confess I had no knowledge of the person at all, but I like the artwork.

OH! This is so cool! Shane from here got me into Winsor McCay, and now I have a couple of the book collections. Such a talented artist!

Saw his animated movie Dreams of a Rarebit Fiend at EbertFest this year. Looks like it's on YouTube.

Oh man. I adored Litle Nemo in Slumberland when I was a kid. I read it endlessly.
Especially the story arc where they finally reach the palace of King Morpheus to find it all deserted because everybody is looking for Nemo himself. They explore all these halls and spaces. One of them upside down.The point where they get so hungry they start eating the comic itself had me quaking with laughter.

I even own the two volume unwieldy gigantic bibliophile edition. Those books are newspaper size!

I'll call my 82 yr old father to point the doodle out to him. And thank him for exposing me to that comic when I was little.

So charming!

I wish I could watch the film, but the bouncing gives me a headache. And it also gave me a hankering for Welsh Rarebit (sent a request to Mum for her recipe, hee!)

We actually saw another movie titled Dreams of a Rarebit Fiend not by McCay at the same time; it was some sort of early 20th century meme.

I never knew that cheese on toast could cause hallucinations.

That was wonderful.

Today, google here has the animated doodle.
I'm a big Winsor McCay fan, have a huge book of his work. What I find really amazing is the rate at which he cranked out his work and how much that consistent craft level has to do with staying in practice to keep skills so sharp.
Drawing a full page of finely graphically laid out illustration is hard work. Really, everything can be broken down into a series of arduous little chores and unpleasant tasks, and it's pretty remarkable at how use to it one gets so one doesn't think about it much and just gets the job done. Yet another big hint that I have to get back into practice.
Too bad someone hasn't made it their obsessive mission to animate Nemo into a movie, unless I missed it. I haven't checked out those Tin Tin movies, so I don't know how well this works out, but I was never a big Tin Tin fan as much as I am a McCay fan.

There was an animated Little Nemo movie about twenty years ago but I've never seen it.