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The surreal inventiveness of Winsor McCay, a cartoonist best known for "Little Nemo in Slumberland" and the animated film "Gertie the Dinosaur," surfaced earlier in a weekly black-and-white strip that ran in U.S. newspapers between 1904 and 1913. In each episode, a new character is caught in an escalating tangle of weirdness: a man practicing for a golf tournament watches as the ground beneath his ball grows into a volcano, which then erupts; a Wall Street secretary swallows her gum, ...