Little Nemo In Slumberland HC Volume 2 Limited Edition
The second of two volumes relatively economically gathering all of the celebrated early full-page, color newspaper comic Little Nemo in Slumberland. It includes a stretch of installments alternatively titled In the Land of Wonderful Dreams that in all other respects are cut of the same cloth. That is, they depict the dream adventures of an art-nouveau-ish little boy, frequently accompanied by one or more ambiguous pals, chief among them a cigar-chomping clown and a mute cartoon “savage” whose appearance may push racism buttons nowadays but whose behavior never lampoons African Americans. The dialogue is inane, to be sure, but McCay’s artwork remains unrivaled in comics to this day. --Ray Olson