The second attempt ended in 1947, and that was the end of Little Nemo in Slumberland as a newspaper feature. In 1966, it was part of an exhibit of McCay's work at New York's Metropolitan Museum of Art, one of the few such exhibits ever devoted to a comic strip cartoonist. Maurice Sendak, the highly-acclaimed children's author and illustrator, cited McCay as a major influence on his own work. Woody Gelman reprinted much of the strip's run in the 1940s, and even more in the '70s. Even today, nearly a century after its first appearance, Little Nemo in Slumberland has seldom been equalled, and perhaps never surpassed, as an example of the sheer beauty of which the comics form is capable.
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