Dream of the Rarebit Fiend

    (Checker, 2007)
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From the Publisher:

Winsor McCay began his artistic career in the late 1800’s and from 1904–1911 he created the landmark comic strip series "Dream of the Rarebit Fiend", based on a one knock joke about consuming Welsh Rarebit, a mildly hallucinogenic food. It allowed him to explore visual sequential art as no one before (and possibly since) has been able to perform. The strip soon split into two distinct formats. The Dailies, which appeared nearly every Tuesday and Thursday in the New York Evening Telegram and the Saturdays. The Saturdays had an expanded space taking up roughly twice the daily square inches—nearly all of the newspaper above the fold. In the early period of that particular newspaper, the Saturday Edition was oversized and the expanded comics section similar to what traditional newspapers would eventually provide to the readership on Sundays. The Telegram was not publishing on Sunday.

The expanded space allotted to ‘Fiend’ allowed McCay to become much more vivid and flesh out the visual concepts of each individual strip—the results were staggering.

Collected here for the first time are the majority of the Saturdays run from their early 1900’s in 98% of their original format. The Dailies appear in the Checker BPG series “Winsor McCay: The Early Works” with other material from the period.
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