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what the world is saying about LITTLE NEMO IN SLUMBERLAND - SPLENDID SUNDAYS This book's a dream. A slumbering giant has stirred and walks among us--it's that hot new artist ,Winsor McCay. You literally can't imagine what loving production and full broadsheet sized scale have wrought! A testimonial (please don't confuse this with "hype."): I have every book of Winsor McCay's Little Nemo ever published, I even have a few actual Sunday pages, but I tell you, it's as if I'd never seen Nemo before! Certainly never read it. (The "writing" in Nemo, even the lettering has been underestimated--it was always too hard to squint and absorb it even in so-called "oversized" reproductions.) Perhaps you THINK you know Nemo--that it's easy to extrapolate from what you've seen and go "Uh-huh. I get it. It's bigger." Uh-uh. You DON'T get it--but if towering aesthetic achievement interests you at all, you gotta get it! I mean, it's as if somebody showed you a table-top model of the Chrysler building and said, "It's just like that, only bigger." Or if you saw a refrigerator magnet reproduction of a Van Gogh painting and figured you've seen Van Gogh.... I dunno, for an artist as concerned with shifts in scale and meticulous attention to detail as McCay was, this heartbreakingly beautiful book is the reinvention of Winsor McCay--as if he was being published for the first time. Only better. --Art Spiegelman, writer, artist, comics historian, Maus, In the Shadow of No Towers It's truly incredible. What can I say? In a single book you've more or less rethought the whole "culture" of comic strip reprints, and now everything else looks really tepid and mediocre by comparison. I'd always thought I understood the importance of original scale to these pages, but I guess I really didn't, and though I tend towards the critical, there's not a single thing I'd want different in this book -- it's perfect through and through, from the conception to the page selection to the essays to the reproduction to, particularly, the design, which is standard-setting in its tastefulness and sophistication, capturing the dignified excitement of McCay's art without imposing a "modern" sensibility to it ... while at the same time not trying to imitate his work directly, either. My compliments to you and everyone who worked on it! Every time I look at it I get inspired; really, this is a wonderful thing, and if you don't get the grand recognition you deserve for it, then there is simply no justice in the world. It's the "book of the year." This is an astounding thing you've made, almost like you've invented a new way of seeing, or something. Maybe you should patent it. . . you've really contributed more to the appreciation of comics with this than I think maybe you were even hoping to ... it's like going back in time, or seeing a landmark building cleaned and restored to the clarity of the day it was built . --Chris Ware, writer, artist, editor, Jimmy Corrigan, Walt and Skeezix, Acme Novelty Library This beautifully done book is a work of art in itself, and a gift to all classic comic strip fans as well as to any art lover.

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