September 26

Born on the 26th in 1867, Winsor McCay became a talented and quite successful cartoonist and animator. He influenced many other artists, from Moebius to Maurice Sendak. One of his more famous comic strips, ‘Little Nemo in Slumberland,’ was made into an animated movie. His breakthrough comic however was Tales of the Jungle Imps by Felix Fiddle. The newspaper Cincinnati Enquirer published forty-three installments of the comic strip from January to November of 1903. McCay brought a sense of humor to his work and, while Little Nemo is amazing, I think Little Sammy Sneeze, seen here, is my favorite.