"Little Nemo in Slumberland" dated September 14, 1924:
Transcript of Tweets by @LittleNemo1905 (AUGUST 24, 2021):
I have been waiting a very, very long time for Dr. Pill to finally leave the group alone… might there actually be some strips on the horizon that don't include him? - 1/13
He and Figures seem to have other duties to attend to while in Slumberland… I'm not sure what election they are discussing here, but it might be the 1924 Presidential Election that ushered in the Coolidge Presidency: - 2/13
It makes sense that we begin to have some strips without them now… Pill was always a chaperone of sorts and now that we have finally (after a long, long time) returned to Slumberland proper, his services are not needed as much. - 3/13
It is also very nice to see the return of the clownish Slumberlandians! They too have been absent for quite some time and seeing them have a genuine blast in that penultimate panel is a really nice re-introduction! - 4/13
It is, of course, what any kid might imagine or want (dare I say… dream) of school to be! There is tons of fun to be had and, as the Princess says, the Slumberland school teaches them "how to be happy". - 5/13
I think this is a wonderful illustration because… well… as an educator, I can tell you school often feels like this! And, more often than not, I feel like a clown performing for an audience of (sometimes) less than enthused visitors! - 6/13
One of those unenthused visitors, would surely be Flip! He'd rather jump off the moving sidewalk into the lake than go to school! This is very in character for him and is particularly funny given the view we get of the school a panel later. - 7/13
I would love a full-sized poster print of this panel to put in my classrooms. I really love it! - 8/13
Back to those moving sidewalks… it's really fun to see how McCay is predicting technology here. Obviously, today, we have something very similar to these moving sidewalks in airports: - 9/13
I will say though, that real-world connection wasn't even the first thing that came to mind when I saw this! As soon as I saw them, I immediately thought of Harlan Ellison's "slidewalks"! - 10/13
#RepentHarlequinSaidtheTicktockman is one of my favourite short stories of all time. I love it! I've taught it (and the Marvel comic adaptation) many times and so I was so excited to make this text-to-text connection here! - 11/13
It's conceivable that Ellison had read McCay; he was obviously quite into the comics scene as a writer and it wouldn't surprise me to learn that he had (maybe) drawn inspiration from #LittleNemo (consciously or unconsciously). - 12/13
This is my reading of "Little Nemo in Slumberland" #428. What's yours? - 13/13
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