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Winsor McCay Biography
Animator / Cartoonist
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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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
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Creator of Little Nemo in Slumberland comic strip