Winsor McCay (Spring Lake, Michigan the September 26th 1871 - July 26th 1934) is a draftsman, scenario writer of Cartoon and Réalisateur of films of animation.

Creator of Little Nemo it is regarded as one of most important the draftsman of cartoons and its work influenced many draftsmen like Moebius or Hayao Miyazaki. He is also a pioneer of the cinema of animation and its cartoon Gertie the dinosaur is the first to put in scene a character single at the attaching personality, which influenced first films of Walt Disney, max Fleischer or Osamu Tezuka.

Biography

Winsor McCay very early has a vocation for the drawing, but it is at the 16 years age under the influence of its professor of drawing John Goodeson that he discovers and develops his qualities for the perspective architectural original and rich of new effects. Very quickly it uses its gifts and launches out in an itinerant career of advertizing painter and decorator. At 17 years, it is fixed at Chicago and continues its artistic studies. It is particularly sensitive to the constructions carried out for the World Fair and with the Gratte-ciel who spout out debris of the fire of 1871. At 19 years, he is already a painter and appreciated and experienced decorator, so that he is employed by Morton' S Dime Museum of Cincinnati, museum of natural history, ethnography where the open ones occur. During ten years, of 1886 with 1896, Winsor McCay produces thousands of drawings for the amusement parks ( Wonderland ) which are then sails about it in the United States. It is extremely probable which it also exerts the trade of open draftsman: virtuoso with work, it impresses the visitors. In 1891 it Marie with Maud Leonore Dufour (then 14 years old). In 1897, it starts to work for the local press of Cincinnati and Life for which it carries out Caricature S and drawings of Science-fiction. It ended up being made locate by James Gordon Bennett owner of very respected the New York Herald and Evening Telegram which engages it. McCay settles with New York in October 1903.

Small Sammy and the amateur of melted in Chester

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