Instantly when I herd Little Nemo I thought of one of my favorite childhood movies; Little Nemo in Slumberland. It is very much like the comic strip but geared more like disney than anything else. It holds the same childlike concepts and feeling of mischief and wonder as the comic strip but is also very different at the same time. But! I am not here to compare and contrast the movie to the comic, so lets get on with things.
The comic strip I had never even herd of before this class to be honest, and I was very intrigued to read some of it. Little Nemo is centered around the little boy and his adventures into a very different kind of dream land. Not one that I was thinking would be found, but something very dark and surrealistic. He rides on a horse throughout his dream but he looses himself in it. It is very surrealistic and dark almost in the fact he is told not to push the horse too hard when he gets told not to in the beginning. Which gives it a very child like aspect.
The visual aspect and actual creation of the strip is a lot different and would not seem to fit in todays type of feel in comic strips. It is really vague and weird in the way the type is written out in each panel. I honestly did not enjoy it at all, it seemed very choppy and almost a last minute feel to it. It even seemed to pull more into the surrealistic quality than realistic events or thoughts that would have happened in a mind of someone in todays day. It almost seemed a little too farfetched for me to even read it didn't give me a sense of childhood in the type, I felt like the words were just blurbs and afterthoughts of a weird trip. I defiantly enjoyed the illustrations more. Then again even those seemed a bit more adult then childish in a way the story line was portrayed. I liked it but it was just a little weird.
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