The Complete Dream Of The Rarebit Fiend Winsor McCay ('Silas'), edited and essays by Alfredo Castelli ,Ulrich Merkl and Jeremy Taylor. Ulrich Merkl, 2007. DREAM OF THE RAREBIT FIEND was a comic strip published in American newspapers from 1904 to 1913. Each episode presented the dream of some poor soul who had the misfortune of partaking of Welsh Rarebit (a melted cheese toast) before retiring, a decision that resulted in unusual and fantastic dreams. In the last panel, the dreaming victim awakened, vowing never to partake of Rarebit before bedtime again.
The strip was written and drawn by Winsor McCay (1867-1934), famous for his “Little Nemo in Slumberland”, which was addressed to children and mainly lived from its spectacular layouts. Whereas Dream of the Rarebit Fiend focused on the plots, seen from a decidedly adult point of view, and was devoted to adult nightmares and phobias, making it one of the weirdest, most amazing and shocking comic strips of all times.
This book contains detailed information about both the life and works of Winsor McCay, as well as the complete Dream of the Rarebit Fiend series, including 369 superb reproductions of the best episodes, digitally restored and reproduced to their original published size, most of them reprinted for the first time since their original publication a century ago.
Also included are 641 additional images (219 in color) illustrating the author's life and work, and the historical and artistic background to individual episodes; two articles by comic book historian Alfredo Castelli: Dream Travelers 1900-1947 & Precursors and epigones of Winsor McCay; an article by dream worker Jeremy Taylor; a DVD with high resolution scans (8 or 3 MB each) of all 821 episodes known to exist (including those not reprinted in the book); a 600 page Word file with a catalogue raisonné of all episodes, containing a vast array of information about the individual episodes, including chronological strip numbering, original publication dates, later reprints, plus much much more! 464 pages. Hard Cover Part Colour 17" x 12" (432mm x 305mm) (ISBN-13: 9783000207518)
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