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| | Winsor McCay and His Fantastic Little Nemo |
 | | And then, in 1905, McCay brought us "Little Nemo in Slumberland," one of the masterpieces of American comic strip art -- indeed, one of the masterpieces of American Art, period. |
 | | In the weekly adventures of Little Nemo, about a little boy's astonishing fantasies, McCay broke all the rules about how a comic strip should look. |
 | | But, ever restless he went on to become one of the principal innovators of the animated film, which led in 1914 to his incomparable short movie Gertie the Dinosaur, which he toured as part of a vaudeville act. |
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