Winsor Zenic McCay ( September 26, 1869 – July 26, 1934 ) was an American cartoonist and animator, best known for the comic strip Little Nemo ( begun 1905 ) and the animated cartoon Gertie the Dinosaur ( 1914 ).

I explained my state of mind to artist Winsor McCay and to `` Bugs '' Baer.

Among his early favorites were Winsor McCay ( mostly known for Little Nemo ) and Frederick Burr Opper ( mostly known for Happy Hooligan ) but he would later study any style that managed to draw his attention.

In the United States the response was from the famous strip cartoon artist Winsor McCay, who drew much more realistic animated figures going through smoother, more naturalistic motion in a series of films starting with the film Little Nemo, made for Vitagraph in 1911.

An attentive student, he spent his leisure time drawing, staging puppet shows, and reading Il corriere dei piccoli, the popular children ’ s magazine that reproduced traditional American cartoons by Winsor McCay, George McManus and Frederick Burr Opper.

Little Nemo is the main fictional character in a series of weekly comic strips by Winsor McCay that appeared in the New York Herald and William Randolph Hearst's New York American newspapers from October 15, 1905 – July 23, 1911 and September 3, 1911 – July 26, 1914 ; respectively.

James Stuart Blackton and Winsor McCay directed a ten-minute short film based on the comic strip, of which two minutes were animated.

Its on screen title is Winsor McCay, the Famous Cartoonist of the N. Y. Herald and his Moving Comics, but it is usually referred to as Little Nemo.

* Winsor McCay Biography

Category: Comic strips by Winsor McCay

* Little Nemo, protagonist of the comic strip Little Nemo in Slumberland by Winsor McCay ( 1905 )

* Winsor McCay

* September 26 – Winsor McCay, American cartoonist and animator ( d. 1934 )

* July 26 – Winsor McCay, American comic creator and animator ( b. 1871 )

One of the very first successful animated cartoons was Gertie the Dinosaur ( 1914 ) by Winsor McCay.

Animation, creating the illusion of motion, was accomplished with drawings ( most notably by Winsor McCay in Gertie the Dinosaur ) and with three-dimensional models ( most notably by Willis O ' Brien in The Lost World and King Kong ).

Gertie the Dinosaur is a 1914 American animated short film by Winsor McCay.

Category: Films by Winsor McCay

Winsor McCay sketch ( drawing ) | sketch ing at the 1908 Actors Benefit for Crippled Children.

* Little Nemo ( 1911 ) also titled Winsor McCay, the Famous Cartoonist of the N. Y. Herald and His Moving Comics

* Winsor McCay: Early Works, Vol.

* Winsor McCay: Early Works, Vol.

* Winsor McCay: Early Works, Vol.

* Winsor McCay: Early Works, Vol.

Although not suitable for children, Giardino's work succeeded in imitating Winsor McCay's exquisite drawing technique, and the level of surrealism was fairly achieved.

The statue of Roger Williams at Roger Williams UniversityMoore ( 1963 ) traces the ' negative ' approach of the orthodox Puritan writers ( Bradford, Winthrop, Morton, Cotton Mather, Hutchinson, Winsor, and Dexter ), the ' romantic ' approach ( George Bancroft, Vernon Parrington, Ernst, and Brockunier ) and the ' realistic ' approach ( Backus, H. Richard Niebuhr, Roland Bainton, and Hudson ), and regards the work of Mauro Calamandrei, who was followed by Perry Miller and Ola Winslow, as crucial.

A prestigious annual art award, the Turner Prize, created in 1984, was named in Turner's honour, and twenty years later the Winsor & Newton Turner Watercolour Award was founded.

He was originally named Zenas Winsor McKay, in honor of his father's employer, Zenas G. Winsor.

Dream of the Rarebit Fiend was a newspaper comic strip by American cartoonist Winsor McCay which began 10 September 1904.

Others, such as historian Justin Winsor, claim that Standish received a lieutenant's commission in the English army and was subsequently promoted to captain in Holland.

Some, including historian Justin Winsor, have insisted that the name of the town of Duxbury was given by Standish in honor of Duxbury Hall, near Chorley in Lancashire, which was owned by a branch of the Standish family.

The train station for this line was at the corner of Winsor Street and Sewall Street and was the last station from Boston when the railroad closed in the 1950s.

A self-proclaimed " very difficult man ," Shaw was married eight times: Jane Cairns ( 1932 – 33 ; annulled ); Margaret Allen ( 1934 – 37 ; divorced ); actress Lana Turner ( 1940 ; divorced ); Betty Kern ( 1942 – 43 ; divorced ), the daughter of songwriter Jerome Kern ; actress Ava Gardner ( 1945 – 46 ; divorced ); Forever Amber author Kathleen Winsor ( 1946 – 48 ; annulled ); actress Doris Dowling ( 1952 – 56 ; divorced ); and actress Evelyn Keyes ( 1957 – 85 ; divorced ).

Kathleen Winsor ( October 16, 1919-May 26, 2003 ) was an American author, best known for the romance novel Forever Amber.

Winsor was born October 16, 1919 in Olivia, Minnesota but raised in Berkeley, California.

Herwig was writing a paper for school on Charles II, and, out of boredom, Winsor read one of his research books.

Winsor denied that her book was particularly daring, and said that she had no interest in explicit scenes.

Winsor denied that her book was particularly daring, and said that she had no interest in explicit scenes.

In 1809, Accum was asked to appear before a Parliamentary committee that was considering granting a charter for a gaslight company Winsor had been promoting.

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Winsor was born in Boston, Massachusetts, son of Nathaniel Winsor III ( 1806-c. 1890 ) and Ann Thomas Howland Winsor ( 1809 – 1893 ).