Dinomania: The Lost Art of Winsor McCay, the Secret Origins of King Kong and the Urge to Destroy New York ~Ulrich Merkl ~comic strip history

Title: Dinomania: The Lost Art of Winsor McCay, the Secret Origins of King Kong, and the Urge to Destroy New York

Author: Ulrich Merkl

Description: First Fantagraphics Books edition. Hardcover. Boards in crimson, reptile-skin textured cloth. Interior is clean and unmarked. 675 photographs and illustrations. Includes a bibliography and index. Dust jacket has light edge curl and a few slight marks; in a new archival mylar sleeve. 295 pages. Oversize volume. 15.5 x 11.5 inches.

Winsor McCay, the creator of Little Nemo in Slumberland, is internationally renowned as a pioneer in comics and animation. But author Ulrich Merkl's dedicated sleuthing has unearthed a never-published strip by McCay that was lost following the artist's untimely death. Titled simply Dino, it opens a surprising new window into McCay's life and work and showcases his exquisitely beautiful and delicate delineations (exactingly reproduced from the original art). Merkl explores the influences McCay brought to the strip, including McCay's own Gertie the Dinosaur animated shorts, the animation in 1933's King Kong, and the growth of New York City from the Holland Tunnel to the Empire State Building, and traces our love of dinosaurs and monster movies down through the decades. Breathtakingly designed, each page of this deluxe oversize volume is overflowing with amazing imagery, with more than 650 photographs and illustrations (more than 250 in color), most of them seen here for the first time in a century.

Binding: Hardcover
Condition: Near Fine
Jacket Condition: Near Fine

Publisher: Fantagraphics Books
Place: Seattle
Year: 2015

ISBN: 1606998404

Keywords: biography, biographies, cartoonists, comic books, comic strips, history, United States, dinosaurs, popular culture, King Kong, New York, monsters, Winsor McCay,