Winsor McCay

Winsor McCay (1869-1934) was a pioneer of the comic strip(Little Nemo in Slumberland) and one of the founding fathersof animation (Gertie the Dinosaur). His workis enormously influential in both fields and directly inspired Walt Disney,Chuck Jones, Federico Fellini, Art Spiegelman, Carl Barks, Maurice Sendak, andRobert Crumb, to name just a few.