Winsor McCay, Baseball Cartoonist

Source: ourgame.mlblogs.com --- Monday, December 04, 2017
Before Rarebit Fiend , before Little Nemo, before Gertie the Dinosaur: a portfolio of his little known Baseball work Winsor McCay poster, ca. 1911; the vignette at lower left references a short film offered below Winsor McCay’s fame rests on his pioneering animation work and stylized, gorgeous cartoon panels for Little Nemo in Slumberland . But once upon a time he was merely a cartoonist for the Cincinnati Enquirer, a fan of the Reds and National League ball, and an artist who returned to the game every now and then in surprising contexts. A Baseball panel for Dreams of the Rarebit Fiend may be seen here: http://ift.tt/2AO20pL . Another Baseball themed piece, an unfinished panel for Little Nemo from 1913: In the land of wonderful dreams: “I’ve heard so much about the great game of Baseball in America!” India ink over pencil with watercolor, 1913 John McGraw, by McCay But let’s focus here on the brief period when the artist, not yet famous, could truly be termed a Baseball cartoonist. In 1891 Zenas Winsor McCay, in his twenties and uncertain of his career path except that he wanted to draw, had moved from Michigan to Cincinnati, where he met his future wife and would stay for more than a decade. In 1900 he became art director at the Cincinnati Enquirer , where most of the Baseball sketches below first appeared. By year’s end he had moved to New York to work for the Herald. His heavily ...

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