little nemo in slumberland

Zenas Winsor McCay, who perhaps shrewdly went by his middle name (and sometimes professionally by the pen name “Silas”), was born on September 26 in 1869. Or... maybe not. He might have been born as early as 1867 or as late as 1871. Through a combination of birth records possibly lost in a fire, and a likely desire by McCay himself to disguise how large the age gap was between him and his wife, we simply don't know for sure when he was born; we've chosen to take his word for it that his birthday was September 26. One thing not in doubt, however, is that the astonishing Mr. McCay was a pioneer in not one, but two fields.

The 27th Annual Will Eisner Comic Industry Awards took place at the Indigo Ballroom at the Hilton Bayfront San Diego on Friday night, and it was a great night for diversity, for women in comics, for comics aimed at a younger audience, and for the future of the industry.

It's been a big week for Little Nemo. Following the announcement that IDW would be publishing new stories of Winsor McCay's classic creation, Locust Moon Comics, a retailer/publisher, has revealed plans for a Little Nemo anthology. Titled Little Nemo: Dream Another Dream, the title will feature contributions from an extremely impressive list of creators, including Bill Sienkiewicz, Becky Cloonan,

The classic Winsor McCay newspaper strip Little Nemo in Slumberland was adapted into an animated film in 1989 after a lengthy period in development hell that included scripts from both Moebius and the director of Adventures in Babysitting...

Last Friday, we asked ComicsAlliance readers to tell us their craziest dreams about comics (or comic book characters) in order to enter to win the new iPad app for Little Nemo in Slumberland, the original crazy dreamtime comic. We've selected our three winners for your viewing and dream interpretation pleasure...

It's been a long time since DC Comics fans got to see the uniformly excellent results of what happens when Stuart Immonen draws their favorite superheroes. The artist has spent a lot of the past many years at Marvel Comics, drawing superlative runs on books like Nextwave and Ultimate Spider-Man, but much of his 1990s work was at DC, on titles including Action Comics and Adventures of Superman... R

We'll admit it: We spend enough time reading and talking about comic books that we know how sometimes, they find their way into your dreams, where you're back at your old high school where Batman is inexplicably the principal, or you suddenly find yourself on a ski trip with Wonder Woman, who is somehow also your mom, and also on the moon...