As a classic comic I thought Little Nemo in the Palace of Ice was quite fantastic. The story was light and the characters were rather simple. The style of the comic was very simple. Bold black lines that are somewhat sharp relatively stylized. The colors are almost like a wash of watercolors. The color themselves are pastel and overall suits the feeling of the comic.
The story starts off with the princess of slumberland and her playmate Nemo are visiting the Palace of Ice to see Jack Frost. They run into a few issues getting there when the ice stairs colapes, they run into a snowman ball, and have to take a sled to the Palace of Ice. They meet him and is warned to now shake his hand because he has a really tight grip. They also learn where snow comes from. They find out that the Palace of Ice is being torn apart. The princess and Nemo find themelf on a iceberg and get picked up by a pirate ship.
It is now good to mention that between everypage of the comic the last panel is the boy nemo being woken up from his dream and then the story continueing. With that being said the quick changes of scenery makes plenty of sense if it is a dream. The princess of slumberland and nemo find them self prisioner on a pirate ship rescued, after they are rescued there ship crashes and they end up in a place that seems like Africa, after they are in Africa they are in a modern city where the comic ends with Nemo and one of the guys he meets in Africa scaling buildings because he is gigantic.
One of the reason why I enjoyed this comic so much, was because I felt Winsor McCay so succsessfuly portrayed the little boy's dream. I felt like I have had dreams of that nature with such quickly changing scenery. The story was light and cute and fairly interesting since the scenery changed at a especially quick pace near the end.
Sunday, September 20, 2009
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