Winsor McCay (1869-1934) was a pioneer of the comic strip (Little Nemo in Slumberland) and one of the founding fathers of animation (Gertie the Dinosaur). His work is enormously influential in both fields and directly inspired Walt Disney, Chuck Jones, Federico Fellini, Art Spiegelman, Carl Barks, Maurice Sendak, and Robert Crumb, to name just a few. Ulrich Merkl is an art historian living in Germany. In 2007, he self-published The Complete Dream of the Rarebit Fiend (1904-1913), for which he collected and digitally restored hundreds of Winsor McCay's strips, one by one. He was nominated for a Eisner award.
Like dinosaurs, this elaborate book is gigantic and wondrous. Dinomania is perhaps the most comprehensive collection of dinosaur-related art, comics, and memorabilia ever published. Hundreds of rare comics, paintings, illustrations, photos, and movie stills deliver so many eyeball jolts that the head swims. Constructed around this collection, there are meticulous timelines, notes, and informative writing. Merkl designed the book as well, giving it an eccentric, mad genius quality -- you've never seen a book like this before. You don't read Dinomania as much as let it stampede.--Paul Tumey "The Comics Journal"
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