Google Pays Tribute to Winsor McCay
Posted on October 15, 2012 at 12:38 pm
I am so happy that Google is paying tribute to one of my favorite artists, Winsor McCay, creator of Little Nemo in Slumberland and Dreams of the Rarebit Fiend
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McCay also invented animation.
He was the one who figured out that if movies were just a series of still pictures, he could draw a series of still pictures and make a movie out of them. He personally drew thousands of pictures for his first animated movie, about Gertie the Dinosaur.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UY40DHs9vc4I was enchanted by the short films inspired by McCay Roger Ebert showed us at Ebertfest this year. This one is by Thomas Edison, circa 1904.
And I am proud to be a Kickstarter supporter of animator Bill Plympton’s new film about McCay.