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| Tales of the Jungle Imps by Winsor McCay (1385-) 1st Sunday January 11, 1903 - Two Years before he created Little Nemo in Slumberland, Winsor McCay produced Tales of the Jungle Imps for a mere 43 weeks with the poetic assistance of George Randolph Chester. Although this was not his first comic-page work, it is certainly his first regularly published series and some of his earliest in full-color. On spectacular pages of paneled illustrations and rhyme, McCay drew pictures for these wonderful nature allegories. Certainly these pages were intended to expand on Rudyard Kipling's 'Just So Stories'. As excellent as these pages are, they are matched by their rarity. Only a few great and important strips were printed in exclusive newspapers. The Yellow Kid was printed in the New York World, then New York Journal. Kin-der-kids and Wee Willie Winikle were printed in the Chicago Tribune. All of these were big-city newspapers. Tales of the Jungle Imps has the distinction of being printed only in the Cincinnati Enquirer. The Enquirer was a fine paper but had only a fraction of the circulation of the big-city papers. Surviving examples in any condition are in extraordinary demand at highest premium. | ||||
A note on Tales of the Jungle Imps In 2003, Checker Book Publishing produced "Winsor McCay - Early Works'. This fine book reprints 39 of these pages in Black and White. It established a benchmark for reprinted these pages in a comprehansive manner for which I know of none better. Unless noted, any pages listed below can be found in this book. |
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