Week 3 Little Nemo

Winsor McCay illustrated the series Little Nemo in Slumberland and Charles Schultz created Peanuts. These 2 comics were both about children but that's where the similarities stop. Since the story of Nemo takes place in his dreams, I love the whimsical aspect of the format. One double-page spread might be 3 columns on each page that extent for the top to the bottom. For example, he dreamed about riding an elephant and this long skinny format made the animals seem huge to little Nemo. Other pages might just have one giant image across the double spread. One image I liked was looking down at the multi-level staircase and his use of perspective gave a real sense of depth. On the other hand, Schultz's Peanuts doesn't have whimsy and is in a consistent format of 4 or 6 frames of the same size. Also, the content is completely different. Nemo is in a dream world and Peanuts is everyday life. The characters in Peanuts are like little adults and don't have the imagination as Nemo.