The Complete Little Nemo in Slumberland

A lavish, oversized collection from Fantagraphics, this six-issue series from 1989 to 1993 painstakingly reprints Winsor McCay’s landmark early-20th-century newspaper strip Little Nemo in Slumberland in its full, glorious color. Curated by comics historians Richard Marschall and Bill Blackbeard, the project made McCay’s dreamlike, architecturally wondrous Sunday pages—a foundational work of sequential art—accessible to a new generation. Its importance lies in preserving and presenting McCay’s masterpiece with the fidelity and reverence it deserves, cementing its status as a key artifact of comics history.