Dream of the Rarebit Fiend,Dreaming,Infant,Beard,Doctor,1907,Winsor McCay

Title: Dream of the rarebit fiend. Yes, he was! Mama's litta dookin's! Mama's itta sweevins! Her own itty witty scoozins
Creator(s): McCay, Winsor, artist
Date Created/Published: 1907.
Summary: Twelve-panel comic strip in which a mother dreams that her infant son grows a beard as she holds him. In her dreams, the doctor pronounces her son's disease incurable and her husband sees nothing wrong with the child, except that he needs a shave. When she awakes from her dream, her husband asks her to stop eating rarebits.
Notes:
Signed lower right: Silas. Winsor McCay used the name Silas when he went to work for the New York Herald.
(DLC/PP-1992:230.11).
Exhibited in 'Best of the Comics: Master Cartoons from the Sturman Collection,' Lied Discovery Children's Museum, 1990; 'Featuring the Funnies: One Hundred Years of the Comic Strip,' Library of Congress, 1995; 'Masters of twentieth-century comics,' Armand Hammer Museum of Art and Cultural Center, Los Angeles, CA, 2005-2006.
Subjects:
Dreaming--1900-1910.
Infants--1900-1910.
Families--1900-1910.
Beards--1900-1910.
Comics--American--1900-1910.
Bookmark /acd1996006850/PP/
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