Winsor McCay: The complete DREAM OF THE RAREBIT FIEND

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Â"Simply put, this is the comics archival book of the year! ItÂ's worth every penny of its price, and a bargain at that!Â" Stephen Bissette, writer, artist, Swamp Thing (on www.) Â"The result is breathtaking and, for me, the absolute without question greatest and most valued comics reprint project in the history of publishing! I have nothing short of complete admiration on the stupendous job done on this!Â" Craig Yoe, artist, designer, publisher (on ) Â"You simply cannot look someone in the eyes and say youÂ're interested in the history of comics if this book is not already on its way to your (consolidated) shelf!Â" Thierry Smolderen, comic scholar () Â"It is overwhelming on practically every level! It will really knock the socks off everyone who sees it!Â" Jonathan B. (Dumont/NJ, U.S.) I donÂ't have enough superlatives to describe it! ItÂ's an unbelievable achievement!Â" Steve R. (East Boston/MA, U.S.) This is the book everyone has been dreaming of! The complete DREAM OF THE RAREBIT FIEND by Winsor McCay! Presenting for the first time: - ALL episodes known to exist! - high quality reprints in FULL original size (giant 17Â" by 12Â")! - detailed background information about every episode! Brand-new! Not to be confused with earlier cheap and disappointing reprints! Limited to 1000 copies worldwide! . DREAM OF THE RAREBIT FIEND was a comic strip published in American newspapers from 1904 to 1913. Each episode presented the dream of some poor soul who had the misfortune of partaking of Welsh Rarebit (a melted cheese toast) before retiring, a decision that resulted in unusual and fantastic dreams. In the last panel, the dreaming victim awakened, vowing never to partake of Rarebit before bedtime again. The strip was written and drawn by Winsor McCay (1867Â-1934), famous for his Â"Little Nemo in SlumberlandÂ". Other than Little Nemo, which was addressed to children, and mainly lived from its spectacular layouts, DREAM OF THE RAREBIT FIEND has a darker side, is more inventive, and is devoted to decidedly adult nightmares and phobias, making it one of the weirdest, most amazing and shocking comic strips of all times, simply Â"the most bizarre newspaper feature in American historyÂ" (Jeet Heer). This book contains - detailed information about both the life and works of Winsor McCay, as well as the DREAM OF THE RAREBIT FIEND series - 369 reproductions of the best DREAM OF THE RAREBIT FIEND episodes, taken from the best available sources, digitally restored, and reproduced to their original published size, most of them reprinted for the first time since their original publication a century ago - 641 additional images (219 in color) illustrating the authorÂ's life and work, and the historical and artistic background to individual DREAM OF THE RAREBIT FIEND episodes - two articles by comic book historian Alfredo Castelli: Â"Dream Travelers 1900Â-1947. Precursors and epigones of Winsor McCayÂ" Â"A dreamer with his feet planted firmly on the groundÂ" - an article by dream worker Jeremy Taylor: Â"Some archetypal symbolic aspects of DREAM OF THE RAREBIT FIENDÂ" a DVD with - high resolution scans (8 or 3 MB each) of all 821 episodes known to exist (including those not reprinted in the book) - a 600 page WORD file with a catalogue raisonné of all episodes, containing a vast array of information about the individual episodes, including chronological strip numbering, original publication dates, later reprints, wabouts of the original artwork, inspirations used by Winsor McCay, later quotations taken from this strip, and historical background information, & the complete text of the printed book - the surviving fragments from McCayÂ's animated film Â"Gertie on TourÂ" (c. 1918Â-1921) Apart from the stripÂ's fascinating content and outstanding graphic qualities, DR... read more

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