I'll resist revealing any of the actual McCay artwork here – it's never been published before as far as I know, so that'll be a big selling point – but here's one panel I drew, taken from the pages I'm recreating from the fragments of existing artwork and various clues supplied in the surviving pages. I'll tell you one thing, being Winsor McCay was hard work – these things are taking me an age to draw!
that is the coolest job ever... and you can totally do it!!!
ReplyDeletethis looks awesome! :D
Thanks! It's challenging but loads of fun.
DeleteI don't know if you've ever seen a bit of self-promotional film McCay made to explain to the public how animation is made. Using a variable speed camera, he appears to be drawing every frame of an entire animated cartoon in minutes!
ReplyDeleteOh yeah - and he probably wasn't exaggerating that much! He was incredibly fast - when he was drawing Little Nemo, he was doing, like, ten other strips every week at the same time. Superhumanly talented. A lot for us mere mortals to live up to!
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