The Complete Little Nemo in Slumberland (1989)

Winsor McCay's full-page weekly strip ran in the New York Herald from October 15, 1905, and each page is a single dream that ends with Nemo waking in or beside his bed. McCay drew Slumberland as architecture: colonnades that recede for what feels like miles, a bed that grows long legs and strides over the city, panels that stretch or shrink as the dream does. The Sunday color is still extravagant more than a century later. Read it in a large collection, because a page shrunk to paperback size loses the detail. The stories are slight and some of the period caricature is hard to look at now; the reason to own it is the drawing.