title: Something black in the American Psyche: formal innovation and Freudian imagery in the comics of Winsor McCay and Robert Crumb.
abstract: Winsor McCay’s Little Nemo in Slumberland anticipates Robert Crumb’s work. McCay’s innocent dreamscapes seem antithetical to the sexually explicit work of anti-capitalist Crumb, but Nemo looks forward to Crumb in subject and form. Nemo’s presentation of class, gender, and race, and its pre-Freudian sensibility are ironic counterpoints to Crumb’s political, Freudian comix.
authors.forename: Edward A
authors.initials: EA
authors.lastname: Shannon
mesh_terms: D002359:Cartoons as Topic / Q000266:history / Q000523:psychology; D005619:Freudian Theory / Q000266:history; D049673:History, 20th Century; D007802:Language; D011572:Psychoanalysis / Q000193:education / Q000266:history; D011822:Race Relations / Q000266:history / Q000331:legislation & jurisprudence / Q000523:psychology; D012922:Social Change / Q000266:history; D012924:Social Conditions / Q000191:economics / Q000266:history / Q000331:legislation & jurisprudence; D012945:Social Values / Q000208:ethnology; D013561:Symbolism; D014481:United States / Q000208:ethnology; D014925:Wit and Humor as Topic / Q000266:history / Q000523:psychology