Winsor McCay uses a lot of exaggeration and crazy scenarios in his dream panels and at the end of each strip the character is shown in bed waking up from this crazy dream. In the bed panel the character is usually in a position that hints back at what he was doing in his dream. Winsor's style is very gritty and rough, he uses just ink- no color. The comics seem to all be pretty outrageous and extreme- for example, in one of the comic's a man is run over by a vehicle multiple times and gradually looses his appendages. When it cuts back to the man in bed, you see just his head- which is recalling back to him loosing his body parts.
These comics seem to be about how random our dreams can be. Winsor obviously makes these comics for comedy purposes.
Krazy Kat
Immediately I got the impression that this comic is very slap stick- characters throwing things at each other, etc. The panel transitions are very reliant on the reader using there minds in some points to fill in the gutter, but then in other scenes the panels are seamless. The story going on in the comics can be hard to follow in some situations and the dialect can be quite strange. The style is very sketchy and reminds me of the Mutts comics in today's newspapers. This comic is also done in just ink with no color. The words and the actual pictures are very closely related- they look like they were done both by hand so they carry the same qualities.
After reading a few Krazy Kat comics a theme begins to form, the reader knows to look forward to the characters beating on each other and the story to be very comical.
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