Winsor McCay: Early Works IX
Series: Winsor McCay: Early Works
Publisher: Checker Book Publishing Group
Published: July 4, 2007
Place of publication: West Carrollton, OH.
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 172
ISBN-13: 9781933160078
Subjects: Graphic Novels; Graphic Satire And Humor; Comics & Graphic Novels; Humor; Graphic Novels - General; Comics & Graphic Novels / Graphic Novels; Comics & Graphic Novels / General; Comics & Cartoons; Fiction - General
Table of contents: title: Front cover
label: {A lady statue, with blindfold, sword and weight scales on a building top [Justice], is pulled upwards by another lady [Boreas] in a flying chariot, colorized in four colors.}; title: 5
label: Winsor McCay's art made a Fuss. Introduction by Cammie Ledbetter; title: 6
label: Dream of the Rarebit Fiend: The Weekday Strips; title: 7
label: (Clip and pasted mosaic of comics); title: 8
label: "Pshaw! Why doesn't Jim Jeffries go at that Jack Johnson? I declare if someone does not fight him, I will my-self! Huh!" #518, August 5, 1909; title: 9
label: "No wonder my head aches! Look at that lump growing on it!" "Oh! The lump is growing bigger! What shall I do?" #522, August 19, 1909; title: 10
label: "I'm sleepy! I think I ate too much! Shall I go lie down?" "Oh! What is the trouble? What ails this chair?" #524, August 26, 1909; title: 11
label: "This certain-ly is solid comfort!" "Huh! What ails this hammocl? It seems to be sinking!!!!" #508, July 1, 1909; title: 12
label: "I'm going to fan myself while walking home!" "It's hot isn't it?" "Who's he calling an it? Who's an it?" #510, July 8, 1909; title: 13
label: "Gee! But it is cold in this room!" "Why it's as cold as an ice box!" "Colder than an ice box!" #512, July 15, 1909; title: 14
label: "Ah! This is fine! Home in my little old home and in my little old easy chair! What a relief! Um!" #514, July 22, 1909; title: 15
label: "There's nothing like the good old salt-" "-Water of the ocean. I love it!" "I feel like I could swim across it! Um!" #516, July 29, 1909; title: 16
label: "Well, Um. I've got to hurry! I hate to come in late to lodge meeting! I believe I have forgot-ten the-" #543, November 4, 1909; title: 17
label: "I don't want a bed! Just a corner where I can coil up and sleep just to be in your hotel. That's all." #536, October 7, 1909; title: 18
label: "I'm look-ing for the other side of the street can you direct me to it? -" "Right over there. Sir. Over There." #540, October 21, 1909; title: 19
label: "Gentlemen! In order for us to win. - In order to crush them  - we must -" "Rise as one man! Stand up and -" #542, October 28, 1909; title: 20
label: "It was a lucky day when I invented this scheme is every-thing ready, Bill? Is it load-ed?" "Yep!" #526, September 2, 1909; title: 21
label: "Today is my wedding day and I must look my best! I hope Silas is feeling good, draws me up swell and makes me handsome." #528, September 9, 1909; title: 22
label: "The moon seems to look very peevish tonight! What ails her. Eh?" "Oooooh! I'm not a going to commence seeing things. Am I? Wowie!" #530, September 16, 1909; title: 23
label: "This, gents is a fight to a finish between a peary man and a cook man. -" Both members of this club. - Time! Shake hands. And go to it!" #532, September 23, 1909; title: 24
label: {Musical notes, above fiddle player} "How I love that piece of music! It is, Eh? What? -" What is the matter with my fiddle?" #534, September 30, 1909; title: 25
label: "Oh! Dearie! Come here, quick! Some thing ails my head! Some thing is growing in my hair!" {Woman's hair begins growing hat, her husband faints.} Unknown date not included in "Complete Rarebit" (Midsummer Day Dreams); title: 26
label: "I'll send one of the pictures to mama if they're good." "They'll be good ones if you'll stand still this is a new lens I've got!" 1914, not included in "Complete Rarebit" (Midsummer Day Dreams, starring Gertie); title: 27
label: "Yes, He was! Mama's littla dookin's! Mama's itta sweevins! Her own itty witty scoozins!" #323, September 12, 1907 (also appears in volume IV, page 13 in poorer quility); title: 28
label: "Why, dearie! They look like horns to me! Huh!" "Horns? Did you say horns wifie? I'll go an' call up Doc!" #642, August 4, 1911; title: 29
label: Gertie the Dinosaur: Animation Cells; title: 30-67
label: Cells; title: 68
label: Dream of the Rarebit Fiend: The Color Strips; title: 69
label: (Clip and pasted mosaic of comics); title: 70
label: "Give me six ought five three jay. Please!" "I didn't say J I said A! I want 6. 0. 5. 3. A. Central!" #593, January 19, 1913; title: 71
label: "Now. I think I'm ready! I'll show some of these peo-ple how I came by my many medals." #594, January 26, 1913 (also seen in black and white in Volume III, 28); title: 72
label: "Gracious me! There's my car! I will have to run and catch it um! -" [Tailor] [Hardware] #596, February 9, 1913 (also seen in black and white in Volume II, page 37 but with the copyright); title: 73
label: "He! He! Hello!" "Oh! Hello! Wait'll I get a broom!" "How are you?" "Here brush off your feet!" #598, February 23, 1913; title: 74
label: "I don't care how you do it. If -" "It's the only way to do it!" "These hair tonics are no good. A-tall!" #597, February 16, 1913 (also seen in black and white in Volume III, page 33, with the copyright; title: 75
label: "I do believe I hear some one under the bed!" "I hate to look! Oh! Sure enough I knew it!" #599, March 2, 1913; title: 76
label: [Boking Office] "Um! This is indeed a cruel world! Me recognized as a star. A dramatic star of great pow-er thrown out of a cheap theatrical agent's office!" #600, March 9, 1913; title: 77
label: "You said you loved me last sunday now you -" "Won't say whether you do or not! Seems" #601, March 16, 1913; title: 78
label: "I'll be dog-ged if a circus isn't coming to town! Huh! I will have to take that in! An' that's no kid!" #602, March 23, 1913; title: 79
label: "Why does he not hold to strap?" "If the car would jerk down he'd go!" "Oh! He is goin to!" #603, March 30, 1913; title: 80
label: "Too late! Huh I wonder if I can hire a sea-going hack around here! I'll see!" #604, April 6, 1913 (also seen in black and white in Volume III, page 30, with the copyright); title: 81
label: "Will I go an' see the giants play today or go up an' see the mid-gets? I'll go see the giants I think. Yep. I'll go! -" #605, April 13, 1913 (also seen in black and white in Volume III, page 29, with the copyright); title: 82
label: "I think I will accept your proposition. Yes! I'll bu it! I've looked it over! I consider it a good thing!" #606, April 20, 1913; title: 83
label: "Will I call on the umbaggos or shall I pay a visit to the Bazzaccos? Ah! I'll go to the Chimpeezo Village of the Shangho dis-trict an talk to the -" #607, April 27, 1913; title: 84
label: "Gentle spring is here and how my thoughts turn to poetry and love! Um! After all how weak the poet is." #608, May 4, 1913; title: 85
label: "Hey! Minnie! Come here and look! The asparagus is up! Come and see!" #609, May 11, 1913 (also seen in black and white in Volume III, page 36, with the copyright); title: 86
label: "Before I go to the city foh the boss I'm goin' to hit his bot.-tle! He keeps pretty good stuff I hear um! I'll see!" #610, May 18, 1913; title: 87
label: "Is that a bear stick-ing his nose out from be-hind those boulders?" #611, May 25, 1913 (Starring Gertie, also seen in black and white in Volume II, page 25, with the copyright); title: 88
label: "I can't wait for summer! It's too slow! I know it's cold but I can't help it! I'm going -" #612, June 1, 1913; title: 89
label: "I'll have to wait. Now. Till the tide goes out. There is nothing -" "Doing I can't sleep! If I do I'll fall off this pile!" #613, June 8, 1913; title: 90
label: "I hear you are in the circus business like it? " In a way yes! Then again. No! But, I'm in it -" #614, June 15, 1913; title: 91
label: {A man in a train, has his leg begin to grow, out of the train, out into the street, past it and into a house.} "Come on. Bill! Wake up! Old number thirty is ready out side!" #615, June 22, 1913; title: 92
label: "Oh! Papa I covered you all up with sand he! He!" "Yes. Dearie! Now run a long to ma-ma. - Let papa sleep!" #616, June 29, 1913 (also seen in black and white in Volume V, page 36, with the copyright); title: 93
label: "This lawn is beginning to look to look fine now! Just splendid! -" "What ails this water?" #617, July 6, 1913; title: 94
label: he said she'd meet me in front of this bill board so I'll just stand here and wait for her she's due too. It's time for her!" #618, July 13, 1913 (also seen in black and white in Volume III, page 32, with the copyright); title: 95
label: "Gedap! Gedap! Gwan! Wake up. You lazy wretches! Get a move -" "-On you! Huh they are moving but the wagon is standing -" #619, July 20, 1913; title: 96
label: "At last. I've discovered the money microbe. The little germ that gets into men's systems and makes millionnaires." #620, July 27, 1913 (also seen in black and white in Volume III, page 31, with the copyright); title: 97
label: "Gwan! Gwan! Gwan! Gwan!" "Aw! Cut that out!" "Who is that talk-in' to me." "All you can say is. Gwan gwan!" #621, August 3, 1913; title: 98
label: "Wow! What is this coming?" "Oh! Who are you? What are you?" "Is this a frying pan? Yes it is!" #595, February 2, 1913; title: 99
label: "I came to take my dancing lesson!" "Oh! Yes! Well. We will start right at it!" #813, 1914 (The Dream of a Lobster Fiend!); title: 100
label: {Editorial advertisment, non-'Dream of the Rarebit'} The New Education. [United States Army Recruiting Office] {A giant Uncle Sam and a shorter man look at a army recruiting poster, full color illustration); title: 101
label: Dream of the Rarebit Fiend: The Saturdays; title: 102
label: "Oh! Have the clothes come? I'm so glad!" "Yes, dear here they are!" [Steel Clothing for the 4th] [Clothing. Iron Steel & Foundry Co.] #509, July 3, 1909; title: 103
label: "I think that stuff is about ready to apply. It is mixing just as I had hoped it would!" "Well, I'll try it any how an' see!" #511, July 10, 1909; title: 104
label: "Shall I get up or shall I lie here a while longer? Um!" "Oh! Eh! Huh! What's up with the bed? Wow!" #513, July 17, 1909; title: 105
label: "Well, sisters! What are we here for to-day why are -" "We here assembled? Is it to voice woman suf-frage?" #515, July 24, 1909; title: 106
label: "Hello! Silas! What are you going to do? Draw my picture? Good! Go ahead!!!" "You know my wife has gone to the coun-try, so fix me up in swell style!" #517, July 31, 1909; title: 107
label: "Ah! Alderman bigmit is going to give a beef-steak dinner and has invited me!" Maybe I'm not ripe for a beef-steak. Right now. Um!" #519, August 7, 1909; title: 108
label: "Everybody is excited! Where are they going? Huh! They're going to the moon!" "What is the attraction?" #521, August 14, 1909; title: 109
label: "Three thous-and dollars! Why, I do not get a cent. [Consul. The famous chimpanzee now performing in this theatre don't fail to see this $3000.00 per week attraction.] #523, August 21, 1909; title: 110
label: "Oh! This is my cue! Lord Aubrey has arrived! Must I suffer this man again today? Oh why must I be tortured thus?" #525, August 28, 1909; title: 111
label: "Yes, but why do you call it sky villa?" Cme in and I'll show you. This is a modern wonder!" #527, September 4, 1909; title: 112
label: "Now if I can only get that cold deep shadowy purple -" "There I think I have it ah!" #529, September 11, 1909; title: 113
label: "My sextant tells me that my heel is one eighth of a sixty-fourth of a ninety-third of a degree from the pole!" #531, September 18, 1909; title: 114
label: "It's time to go home." "Yes. It is September! We've been here since April, but Oh! Well!" "Well I'm going to go home!" #533, September 25, 1909; title: 115
label: "Here I am in a big city. No one knows me I know nobody if I only knew what time it is I wouldn't care. But I do not know. Um! Gracious!!!" #535, October 2, 1909; title: 116
label: "Huh! I've got to register today. And for the min-ute I have for-gotten my name that's funny!" #537, October 9, 1909; title: 117
label: "The whole of Yellow Stone Park is great but that big geyser caught me. Oh! Well I'll go to sleep. -" #539, October 16, 1909; title: 118
label: "'Twant as good as the fair last year. Do ye think so?" "That balloon asen-shun was the best thing they had, Ma. That was great! -" #541, October 23, 1909; title: 119
label: The Editorial Works; title: 120
label: What has Become of - - Where are They Now? {Ten differant scenes, starting with "The trick roller skater?" and ending with, "The boot Jack?"; title: 121
label: What has Become of - - Where are They Now? {Ten differant scenes, starting with "The man who parted his hair behind? and ending with, "The autograph album?"; title: 122
label: The Lion and the Lamb {This is a two panel comic, above an image of a thin man, and large, in front of a judge's bench, a lamb [Law] on the counter. "Sentance Suspended.", The second image below, a man openly handly presenting a women and her children, a lion [Law] on the counter "Into the street with her." Two Phases of the Law as It Is Administered in America.; title: 123
label: Yuletide. {Two images one above the other, above is; [Convicted] {Prisoners with strippoed suits, eat in jail at large tables. Below is; [Evicted] {A woman and her children, one in her coat, are standing in the street, as people bring out furnature from a house.}; title: 124
label: Millions in Crops; No Ships to Market Them! {Hands in the darkness are reaching out over the water. On the shore is one small ship. On the dock stands Uncle Sam with his hands on his sides, behind him are many large products. [Oats], [Farm Produc], [Cotton], [Wheat], [Flour], [Farm Prods], [Sugar], [Corn], [Rye], [Barley], [Syrup].; title: 125
label: The Man with the Goods! [The Old Reliable Uncle Sam's General Stores Merchandise of all kinds] "We awake this morning to find a great war is on."; title: 126
label: Plenty of Work in Sight! {The word [Europe] is seen over a fencethat is burning. Uncle Sam is sawing off logs, [Business].}; title: 127
label: "See How She Takes the Water!" {A large Uncle Sam breaks a bottle against a ship [U.S. Merchant Marine] to launch it, while many small people on either side cheer.}; title: 128
label: Thirsty! {Two men stand outside a [Nd Cafe], near them in the street are two horses pulling a carriage, both with their tongues sticking out. "I'm dying for a cold drink! -" "So am I let's go get one!"; title: 129
label: Going and Coming! {A snowy landscape is seen in the distance and a monster type thing [Winter], stands behind a woman and her child [Poverty]. Infront of them stands a solider [Summer], with helmet and robe, holding a lighted scepter.}; title: 130
label: "Nobody Home!" {A plump man [Father Knickerbocker] dressed in a early colonial suit, stands before three doors each with a sign on them, each signed by a Mayor, explaining why they aren't in at the moment. "Huh! What am I paying these fellows for?"; title: 131
label: "Watchful Waiting" {A man knocks on a door with [Henery Ford] on the mail drop slot, he holds a [Speech], a bird in a cage [Peace], and a note; [Henery Ford will give $1,000,000 Campaign Against Preparedness].}; title: 132
label: The Crumbled Hope of the World! {A castle like house is seen in ruins, with a flag [Palace of Peace], the lower walls are intact, while the upper floors and roofs have only their frames remaining.}; title: 133
label: Artist Winsor McCay Draws His Impressions of the Remarkable Drama "To-day" {Various scences of a play, begining with "Huh! We lived in a $50. A month flat five years ago!" and ending with [Me trying to sketch the finish!].}; title: 134
label: A Conflict of Signals. {Two ships [Congress] and [Business] are being sent messages by another ship [Administration Yacht], and a light house [The People]. The messages are; [Go ahead], and [Back Up].}; title: 135
label: Artist Winsor McCay Draws His Impressions of the Successful Comedy, "The Missing Lady" {{Various scences of a play, begining with "She's won him!!! Ha! Ha! She's won him! and ending with, "What have you there in your mind?" "Tabacco."; title: 136
label: Their Education. {A woman and her two children stand at the center of a battlefield. Behind them is an explosion, on the left of the image is men on horses, on the right are men around a cannon.; title: 137
label: In a Land of Plenty! {A large wolf [Hunger], looks into a small house, next to them is a man looking up at a large wall, on its gate is a lock, [War Prices]. Above the wall is seen a large man reading a newspaper [War New], behind him various food products, [Sugar], [Meat], [Corn Meal], [Dill], [Cheese], and [Potatoes].; title: 138
label: It all Depends on the Point of View! {A ship [Foreign Agression], is seen by two men on a hill, [Danials] carries a spyglass turned the wrong way to make the ship look smaller, while [Bryan] holds a maginfying lens over a [U.S. Army] soldier.} "Look in this telescope. See the little battleship coming this way!" "Yes, -"; title: 139
label: The Coming Swarm. {Soldiers from Japan are seen passing over the world and the U.S. in a 'S' shape, they march towards the [Panama Canal].}; title: 140
label: A work crane is seen above a group of [Shool] children, then above between the two main sceeens with children in its closed sides, and finaly dropping the children infront of a factory.}; title: 141
label: Custom Makes More Cowards Than Conscience. {The top-half of a giant is riding on a skateboard type wheeled steamroller. People are bowing before it in a large field.}; title: 142
label: A Frost. {A man [Congress] on stage is being hooked by a cane and pulled off. While in the audiance [Artiste], [Merchant], [Wage Earner], [Banker], [Tired Business Man], [Importer], [Laborer], [Manufacturer]. Off to the side is Wilson "Bravo! Bravo!", and Bryan "Isn't he great? Isn't he wonderful?".}; title: 143
label: It all depends on Cargo! "Loaded with Gold for Englad." "Loaded with American Passengers."; title: 144-145
label: {Many people are in a sea of coins, near a large pig [Fortune, Wealth], in the upper left are some rocks and beyond that a building [Fame].}; title: 146-147
label: A man in white [Mental and Moral Corage], is on a black background with dark cloads, and lightening [War], [Depression], [Calamity], [Discouragement]. Below this but reversed in mirror image are 5 images; Scorpion with baby ones on its back, Two mole like creaturesgrabbing each other, Two Roosets fighting with their feet, two dogs grabbiung each other, and two boxers fighting near the ropes.}; title: 148-149
label: {A man with various musical instruments, dressed in robes, enters a room of rounded columns, behind him from the darkness is [Noise]. On the left is a couch that a man [Rest], on the right is a man [Study] near a desk, both of which are turing away from the intruder.}; title: 150-151
label: The Literary Digest for November 11, 1922 {Two images; An elephant [G.O.P. warns Uncle Sam who is touching a globe [World Affairs] and a newspaper [League of Nations] "Don't touch that its a bomb!!!" [Another Fake Warning], the second image is of a skeleton in a helmet, holding a sword [Murder], and a broom [Arson], it is chainewd to an unhappily looking Uncle Sam by the [League of Nations] [The Blight of Europe]. [Opposite Views of the Entanglement Peril].}; title: 152-153
label: {Uncle Sam coaches "My Big Powerful Boys!", four large men, [Steel], [Electric Power], [Ford], [General Motors], as they use straps to turn the wheel of [Industry], off to the left side is another large man [Oil].}; title: 154-155
label: {A tiger named [Tamany] and a man [Dem. Candidate] holding a [Follow Me] sign walk into some bushes, while 7 other people stand around and watch.}; title: 156
label: [The Venusette Corset] [Her Comes the Captian] "You Hawsty Wetch." "Dis is an honor." {A Billboard street, police man in various poses, and women from the 'insane ward'.} {This illustration is also seen in printed form in 'Early Works VI', page 19, with title "Police Force, Obeying Commissioner, May Change Into a "Satorial Finest".}; title: 157
label: "This used to be a saloon._ Now, look at it._ Empty and for Rent." "Isn't that wonderful!!!!_" "What'll it be, gents?" Ever see a speakeasy? Here's one.; title: 158
label: {On a large mountain of papers [For Temperance Not Prohibition], people are throwing more notes onto it.} The Big Parade.; title: 159
label: {A ship [Temperance], unloads or is being loaded with, rolled up documents [Prohibition Amendment], [Volstead Act], Jones 5 & 10 Law], Hypocrisy of Dry Law Makers], [Intolerance of Dry Leaders], [Drys' Scrapping of Contitutional Rights], [Fanatical Enforcement], ["Death for a Pint" Tactics].} There's a load limit for every ship.; title: 160
label: {Two sences of the same place, scene one:"Your honor this man stands convicted of shooting a young man in the back and killing him!" "How was I to know he didn't have liquor in his car?" Scene two: Your honor this man was found with a pint of whisky in his hip pocket." "I pelead guilty!" Justice Vs. Dry Logic; title: 161
label: "I don't intend to read it! I'm agin any thing that's agin prohibition." [Read judge Hoyt's $25,000 prize winning answer to the Most Pressing Problem before the People - Prohibition in the Nation Wide Temperance Contest.] None so blind as those who will not see.; title: 162
label: {This comic has two secenes, first a long arm [Prohibition Enforcement] points a woman with six children to a jail cell, second a large man in a fancy car [Bootlegger] waves at a small police officer [Prohibition Enforcement].} Prohibition Enforcement.; title: 163
label: "The Jones Law is a good law. And, I am for sending prohibition violators to prison for five years with a fine of ten thousand dollars!!" He votes dry; he drinks wet.; title: 164
label: "They tried to fool us but it did not work." "We were too spry for them, I'll say!" "Hand the liquor out when you find it!" "I don't seem to find any liquor." "There ain't a drop of anything but milk here!" And there was no liquor.; title: 165
label: {Two ships are seen, one a large [Leviathan], and another smaller [U.S. Rum Chaser].} "Stop!!! Or I will sink you." Yes, Quite a Difference.; title: 166
label: {Outside of a building are seen people fighting , fire and smoke, inside the building with four round columns are people laying on the floor, and group of people at a desk, one of them writting on a piece of paper. "For god's sake help us." (Message from citizens of International Falls, Minn., to President Hoover.) {Also seen in original form without additional caption in 'Early Works VII', page 177.}; title: 167
label: "Yes, Juda! We must economize! We must practice economy! Cut down our army and navy." "I'm going to name our baby - Economy!" {rough sketch in pencil and later in ink of a puppeteer [Pacifist] below his stage window. Two other puppets near him, a skeleton and three horned creature.}; title: 168
label: "Economy" "Economy", a puppeteer [Pacifist] below his stage window. Two other puppets near him, a skeleton and three horned creature. Finished version.}; title: 169
label: {A man looks along a circular arched row of columns [January], [February], [March], [April], [May], all with crossed out words below them while the remaindrer of the pillars have this message [Opportunity] still visible, behind them is seen a big city.}; title: 170
label: A man looks at some pillars [January], [February], [March], [April], [May], all with crossed out words below them while the remaindrer of the pillars have this message [Opportunity] still visible, they are placed along a long straight road, behindthem is a mountain side.}; title: 171
label: {There are four versions of the same drawing at various deatails of compasition, from early seketch at the top to finished drawing at the bottom signed "Winsor McCay, Palace Theatre"; six figures are seated, from left to right they are. [Wood Alcohol], [Daughter], [Papa], [Mama], [Son], [Dope].}; title: 172
label: {A large ship is seen in dock with a smaller building on the images left side, the building has a centeral dome, and two half circular windows near its roof. On it's right side is a smaller ship, less then half the first ship's size.}