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Winsor McCay
Zenas Winsor McCay was an American cartoonist and animator. He is best known for the comic strip Little Nemo and the animated film Gertie the Dinosaur (1914). For contractual reasons, he worked under the pen name Silas on the comic strip Dream of the Rarebit Fiend.
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entertainment · American cartoonist and animator (c.1866–1934) · cartoonist · animator · screenwriter · science fiction writer · film producer · comics artist · animation director · film director · draftsperson · director · also Winsor McCay, Silas, Winsor Z. McCay, Winsor MacCay, Winsor Zenic McCay, Zenas Winsor McCay
Born 1 January 1867 · Died 26 July 1934 · Q207960
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Winsor McCay (1912) How a Mosquito Operates
The Sinking of the Lusitania (1918)
Winsor McCay, the Famous Cartoonist of the N.Y. Herald and His Moving Comics - Little Nemo (1911)
Winsor McCay (1914)Gertie the Dinosaur
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2026· 10 entries
Yahoo: Silas Demary Jr. Foundation gives out backpacks, supplies and books to students in Hartford
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Page Six: Justin Timberlake shares rare photos of his and Jessica Biel’s sons, Silas, 11, and Phineas, 6, in summer recap
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Legacy obituary: Silas Lee Davis Obituary (2026) - Roanoke, VA - Serenity Funeral Home and Cremation Service - Airport Road
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People.com: Justin Timberlake and Jessica Biel’s 2 Kids: All About Sons Silas and Phineas
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People.com: Justin Timberlake Shares Rare Family Photos of Sons Phineas, 6, and Silas, 11, in Summer Recap Post
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primetimer.com: Justin Timberlake’s summer recap features rare glimpse of Silas and Phineas
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Readers.id: Justin Timberlake Shares Summer Moments with Sons Phineas and Silas
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Geo News: Justin Timberlake shares sweet summer photos of sons Phineas and Silas
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standardmedia.co.ke: EPRA assistant director Silas Cheboi dies
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2009· 1 entry
Is located in Winsor McCay Park
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2005· 1 entry
A revised and expanded version of the biography was released, which comics scholar Jeet Heer called "far and away the most scholarly and intelligent biography ever written about an American cartoonist"
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2004· 1 entry
Appropriated some of McCay's imagery, and included a page of Little Nemo in its appendix
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1996· 1 entry
Awarded Will Eisner Hall of Fame (1996).
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1990· 1 entry
Published “The Tragedy of the Commons: Twenty-two years later” in Human Ecology — cited 765 times.
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1987· 1 entry
Called Winsor McCay: His Life and Art
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1975· 1 entry
In New York, which led to a film show at the Whitney Museum of American Art in winter 1975–76
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1974· 2 entries
Awarded Winsor McCay Award (1974).
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Called Remembering Winsor McCay, narrated by McCay's animation assistant John Fitzsimmons
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1973· 1 entry
Gelman published a collection of Little Nemo strips in Italy
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1972· 1 entry
To recognize individuals for lifetime or career contributions in animation, and is presented as part of the Annie Awards
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1966· 1 entry
Cartoonist Woody Gelman discovered the original artwork for many Little Nemo strips at a cartoon studio where McCay's son Robert had worked
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1949· 1 entry
Was living with her daughter and son-in-law
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1947· 1 entry
Robert and fabric salesman Irving Mendelsohn organized the McCay Feature Syndicate, Inc
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1937· 1 entry
McCay's son Robert attempted to carry on his father's legacy by reviving Little Nemo
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1935· 1 entry
Published “The Effect of Retarded Growth Upon the Length of Life Span and Upon the Ultimate Body Size” in The Journal of Nutrition — cited 1,504 times.
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1934· 2 entries
Died 1934-07-26.
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Complained to his wife of a severe head-ache
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1932· 1 entry
McCay found himself in what he recalled as "the wildest ride" in his life when Hearst's son "Young Bill" drove him at 85 miles per hour (137 km/h) to the scene of the kidnapping of the Lindbergh baby
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1929· 1 entry
To do an advertising campaign for a financial "sum in excess of his annual salary"
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1927· 1 entry
McCay attended a dinner in his honor in New York
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1922· 1 entry
McCay resumed doing vaudeville shows for the Keith circuit
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1921· 1 entry
Released three films based on Dream of the Rarebit Fiend: Bug Vaudeville, in which insects and other creepy-crawlies perform on stage; The Pet, in which a creature with a bottomless appetite grows enormously and terro
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1916· 1 entry
The Sinking of the Lusitania was his follow-up to Gertie
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1915· 1 entry
With full Masonic rites, with funerals arranged by his Masonic lodges in both Woodstock, Ontario, and Edmore, Michigan
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1914· 1 entry
By animator John Randolph Bray, who took advantage of McCay's lapse by patenting many of McCay's techniques, including the use of registration marks, tracing paper, the Mutoscope action viewer, and the cycling of drawing
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1911· 1 entry
And four days later McCay began using it as part of his vaudeville act
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1910· 2 entries
That he was born in 1869, and this is the year listed on his grave marker
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McCay never let his children know about his brother, nor did they know about the existence of his sister Mae, who died in 1910.
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1906· 1 entry
In a show that also featured entertainer W
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1905· 1 entry
His signature strip Little Nemo in Slumberland debuted—a fantasy strip in an Art Nouveau style about a young boy and his adventurous dreams
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1903· 1 entry
Joined the New York Herald, where he created popular comic strips such as Little Sammy Sneeze and Dream of the Rarebit Fiend
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1900· 1 entry
McCay accepted a position with a higher salary at The Cincinnati Enquirer
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1899· 1 entry
McCay's major dream strips work have invited speculation of a Freudian influence
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1898· 2 entries
Where he stayed until his death from bronchopneumonia and arteriosclerosis on June 15, 1946
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Began illustrating newspapers and magazines
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1896· 1 entry
A demonstration of Thomas Edison's Vitascope was given, which was likely McCay's first exposure to the young medium of film
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1891· 1 entry
McCay moved to Cincinnati, where he did more dime museum work while living in a boarding house near his workplace
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1885· 1 entry
Moved the family to Stanton, Michigan, and expanded his land holdings; he was successful in real estate with his brother Hugh, who moved from Canada in 1887
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1867· 3 entries
And others have speculated 1866 or 1868 based on evidence on how the censuses were carried out
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McKay, who was born in Canada in 1867, and others have speculated 1866 or 1868 based on evidence on how the censuses were carried out.
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Born 1867-01-01.
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1866· 1 entry
At Woodstock's Methodist Episcopal Church
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1840· 1 entry
McCay's father, Robert McKay (1840 – March 21, 1915) was born in Woodstock, Upper Canada, the third of six children.
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