Editing Little Nemo (section)

==Background==
[[Winsor McCay]]&nbsp;({{circa|1867–71}}&nbsp;– 1934){{efn|Different accounts have given McCay's birth year as 1867, 1869, and 1871. His birth records are not extant.{{sfn|Canemaker|2005|p=22}}}} had worked prolifically as a commercial artist and cartoonist in carnivals and [[dime museum]]s before he began working for newspapers and magazines in 1898. In 1903, he joined the staff of the ''[[New York Herald]]'' family of newspapers,{{sfn|Eagan|2010|p=32}} where he had success with comic strips such as ''[[Little Sammy Sneeze]]'' (1904–06).{{sfn|Canemaker|2005|p=75}} and ''[[Dream of the Rarebit Fiend]]'' (1904–11){{efn|''Rarebit Fiend'' was revived between 1911 and 1913 under other titles, such as ''Midsummer Day Dreams'' and ''It Was Only a Dream''.{{sfn|Merkl|2007|p=478}}}}{{sfn|Eagan|2010|p=32}}

[[File:Bobbie McCay Little Nemo.jpg|thumb|alt=A black-and-white photograph of a curly-haired young boy, seated with one leg crossed over the other, and wearing a sailor suit.|Winsor McCay's son [[Bob McCay|Robert]] served as the model for Nemo.]]

In 1905, McCay got "an idea from the ''Rarebit Fiend'' to please the little folk".{{sfn|Canemaker|2005|p=87}} That October, the full-page [[Sunday comics|Sunday strip]] ''Little Nemo in Slumberland'' debuted in the ''Herald''.{{sfn|Canemaker|2005|p=97}}  Considered McCay's masterpiece,{{sfnm|1a1=Harvey|1y=1994|1p=21|2a1=Hubbard|2y=2012|3a1=Sabin|3y=1993|3p=134|4a1=Dover editors|4y=1973|4p=vii|5a1=Canwell|5y=2009|5p=19}} its child [[protagonist]], whose appearance was based on McCay's son [[Bob McCay|Robert]],{{sfn|Crafton|1993|p=97}} had fabulous dreams that would be interrupted with his awakening in the last panel. McCay experimented with the form of the comics page, its timing and pacing, the size and shape of its panels, perspective, architectural and other detail.{{sfn|Harvey|1994|p=21}}