This 1908 Little Nemo in Slumberland original art, once displayed in museums, heads to auction
Winsor McCay Little Nemo in Slumberland Sunday Comic Strip Befuddle Hall Original Art dated 2-23-08 (New York Herald, 1908).
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.- In a letter to cartoonist Clare Briggs, Winsor McCay, the artist and animator, explained that he could no more stop putting pen to paper than he could cease filling his lungs with air. I never intended to be an artist, McCay wrote in the earnest missive. Simply, I couldn t stop myself from drawing. I drew for my own pleasure. I never wanted to know whether or not someone liked my drawings. I never thought about the money I would receive for my drawings. I simply drew and drew.