Little Nemo

Little Nemo is an interesting comic strip to read. It goes into the imagination of a child's dreams and really captures it with the fantastic illustrations. The use of Nemos bed in the comic is nice mainly because in some of the strips all of the panels are profile but Winsor McCay makes it look interesting and beautiful. As the dream continues the bed becomes what ever Nemo wants it to be and one of my favorite parts of these comics is seeing how Nemo wakes up. One thing I really don't like about these comics is the text. I feel the text could be spread out more. It is to cramped and hard to read it does not help the images. The spacing between the panels in my opinion is to close together. This makes the illustrations to cramped and it takes away from their detail and beauty. Overall the storytelling in these illustrations are amazing McCay shows you so much in such a little time and the compositions are amazing whether it is a profile shot throughout the entire comic or he moves the viewer around through the dreamscape the illustrations speak for themselves. Overall I think I enjoy the illustrations by themselves more than the use of text and image. The illustrations are strong enough to be by themselves and still tell the story in some cases but as a whole I really enjoyed reading Little Nemo it was fun and interesting and definitely something to look at for composition in comics or illustration.