I Dream Of Dragons: Surrealism in Little Nemo

A Little Nemo Comic in which a Dragon's mouth contains a throne; the dragon is like a car.

Little Nemo in Slumberland, a comic by Winsor McCay, can be seen as the beginning of what would become the surrealist movement in art. Okay, sure, but what is Surrealism? Surrealism, in the common vernacular, refers usually to off the wall strangeness and the use of elements that don’t go together in the making of […]