I owned several of the collections, and in fact EVERYone KNEW owned several of the collections. If you were around in the 80s, there was simply NO strip better than Bloom County. The perspectives, the sense of scale… Let’s just see one more before we move along. Or ask a Southern Baptist to have some human decency towards a gay guy. And if you think things are all hunky dory now, you should ask a Tutsi in Rwanda how lovey dovey people are. There’s no point in glossing over the past, it’s been a long, racist, misogynistic, homophobic walk to the present. uh…… racially insensitive to say the least.
One tricky angle, however is a character called Imp, a black boy in a jungle outfit that is…. The adventures go on and on and amongst the things McCay nails is the childhood blur between fantasy and reality. The journey alone to Slumberland takes about a year to tell, and for awhile there’s a character, Flip, who wakes Nemo up every time he appears.įor that matter, in the last panel of every strip, Nemo awakes. well, his dream are intense.Īnyway, a messenger from King Morpheus appears to him and wants to bring him to Slumberland to play with the King’s daughter. See, Nemo is this little boy and obviously his parents give him absinthe or hemlock or something to put him to sleep because he dreams like a…. There IS an actual storyline, which took years to tell. This thing is the trippiest cartoon i’ve ever seen, and that includes almost every actual comic book ever made. In fact, i think because it predated its genre, it didn’t realize it was supposed to think more meagerly. It was one of the first weekly comics ever, and 100 years later still shines far above its genre. Little Nemo is Slumberland was is weekly strip by Windsor McCay that ran from 1905 until about 1913. (sorry folks, while i made sure that all the examples i chose are easily readable, there just simply are no online examples of Nemo that are legible. Unfortunately, when i’ve tried to read collections of Pogo they just didn’t hold much relevance for me and i’ve never really enjoyed it. And the fact that i’m leaving out Pogo, which is a renowned strip from the 60s, apparently full of great insights and political allegory. Well, except for well #2 should have been #1. There is just no possibility of argument about this. Using rigorous and exacting scientific testing I have determined, beyond all doubt, the 5 greatest comic strips to ever run in US newspapers. Let me begin by apologizing for what is most certainly a completely American culture dominated post that i doubt will have much relevance for my European readers.
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