![]() As Silas, McCay's efforts included 'Dull Care' and 'Poor Jake'. Bound by contract restrictions, McCay used an alias "Silas" to distinguish his work in both the strips. The editor of the Herald wanted to separate McCay's work for the two papers. 1904 saw the debut of Little Sammy Sneeze for the New York Herald followed by Dream of a Rarebit Fiend for the New York Telegram. With comic strips gaining popularity, McCay moved to new York with his family and now started working on his own comic strips. During this time, he fine tuned his artistic skills and produced his first comic strip, Tales of the Jungle Imps, which debuted in 1903. To support his family, McCay joined the Cincinnati Times-Star as an editorial cartoonist/reporter, while freelancing for other magazines as well. They bore two children Robert and Marion. In 1891, he began his newspaper career and also married Maude Leonore Dufour. Two years later, he moved to Cincinnati during the late 1880's, where he first worked as an illustrator, creating advertising posters for the Kohl and Middleton Dime Museum. ![]() McCay made illustrations mostly of circus subjects. McCay quit school, at the age of 21 and with limited art training, he worked as a poster and billboard artist for the National Printing Company. He worked in a Dime Museum as a portrait artist, a fact unknown to his parents. His father who was a real estate agent, wanted him to develop as a businessman. McCay was interested in drawing from a very early age. He was an American newspaper cartoonist and also a pioneer of animated films. Winsor McCay's 'Little Nemo in Slumberland' is the subject of the latest Google doodle.
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