The trajectory of any new artistic genre—oil painting, the novel, video installation—is almost always to improve, or at least grow more inventive. Except in those rare cases when it might not. Edward ...

Very few people who are still alive have seen Winsor McCay’s work the way it was meant to be seen. That’s a shame — he was one of America’s first major comic-strip artists, and a century after his ...

"Mac is the greatest of the serious ink splashers." - Damon Runyon You can make the argument that the comic strip started with Winsor McCay. Chronologically, it's not quite true but, more than most, ...

Who’d have guessed that Winsor McCay’s 110-year-old comic strip, Little Nemo in Slumberland, would turn out to be one of the hottest properties of the last year? McCay’s extraordinary draftsmanship ...