- Born: 26 September 1871
- Died: 26 July 1934
- Birthplace: Spring Lake, Michigan
- Best known as:
Creator of Little Nemo in Slumberland comic strip
4 good links
- Winsor McCay
Google video archive from TVDays.com
- The History of Animation: Winsor McCay and Max Fleischer
This story of the animation industry begins with McCay
- Gertie the Dinosaur
The Dinosaur Interplanetary Gazette tells a great tale about McCay
- Winsor McCay Biography
Another nice bio, with many personal details
Winsor McCay Biography
Winsor McCay was an early 20th century newspaper cartoonist who gained national fame through his detailed and phantasmagorical strips Little Nemo in Slumberland and Dreams of the Rarebit Fiend. He made an animated Nemo in 1911; he also made the world's first successful cartoon, Gertie the Dinosaur, in 1913, for which he drew 10,000 drawings, backgrounds included.
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