In 1911, famed cartoonist Winsor McCay debuted one of the first animated cartoons, based on his sophisticated newspaper strip Little Nemo in Slumberland, itself inspired by Freud's recent research on dreams.
McCay is largely forgotten today, but he unleashed an art form, and the creative energy of artists from Otto Messmer and Max Fleischer to Walt Disney and Warner Bros.
' Chuck Jones.
Their origin stories, rivalries, and sheer genius, as Reid Mitenbuler skillfully relates,.
Atlantic Monthly Press Wild minds: the artists and rivalries that inspired the golden age of animation, hardcover/reid mitenbuler
