Watch Winsor McCay’s Little Nemo and Gertie the Dinosaur, and Witness the Delivery of Fashionable Animation (1911-1914)

“Con­sid­er­ing that, in a automotive­toon, any­factor can hap­pen that the thoughts can imag­ine, the comics have gen­er­al­ly depict­ed pret­ty mun­dane worlds,” writes Calvin and Hobbes cre­ator Invoice Wat­ter­son. “Certain, there have been discuss­ing ani­mals, a number of house­ships and what­not, however the comics have hardly ever proven us any­factor tru­ly weird. Lit­tle Nemo’s dream imagery,…