For those that know me well, you'll recall that I am an avid fan of pre-Disney animation. The Google doodle for today pays homage to one of my absolute favorites, Winsor McCay.
A friend to sideshow, Winsor began his animation career hosting "chalk-talks" and drawing caricatures of patrons at Sackett & Wiggins' Wonderland, a small dime museum just outside of Detroit. After moving to Cincinnati in 1891, he continued his support of the weird and wonderful, designing posters for traveling freak shows and circuses in the US.
Mere months before the Dreamland fire in 1911, McCay had captured a panoramic view of Coney Island, the scenery of which is heavily featured in Little Nemo.
While Émile Cohl's "Fantasmagorie" predates Winsor's animation attempt below by several years, McCay's technique and attention to detail remains beyond comparison, even today.
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