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Today the Google Doodle is a tribute to the comic strip Little Nemo in Slumberland, by the artist Winsor McCay, which ran in American newspapers from 1905-1914. Each night the hero of the strip, Little Nemo, would fall asleep in his bed and embark on adventures in Slumberland, sometimes continuing from the night before. Each strip would end with Nemo falling out of his bed and waking up. In those days strips were often given a full newspaper page, and McCay used this to full extent, varying the size of the panels and employing great architectural detail in creating vast fantastical locations. Google's tribute uses the imagery of McCay to show a typical Nemo adventure. The excerpt I posted above from the Google Doodle pays tribute to The Walking Bed (1908), where Nemo's bed grew legs and walked through the city. Read more in this Comic Riffs blog post.
