These slaves and imps were among the more disturbing oddities that Nemo encountered during his nocturnal voyages. There were other signs that Slumberland was hardly an ideal egalitarian society, including the rough treatment meted out to African “jungle imps.” Slumberland even had slaves, a profession recently abolished in the daytime America. In the echoing hallways of Slumberland, Morpheus was constantly receiving curtseys and bows from courtiers draped in colorful attire that combined the fripperies of eighteenth-century Versailles with the colors of a circus.

Unlike the daytime republic governed by President Theodore Roosevelt, Slumberland was ruled over by King Morpheus, a Jove-like patriarch whose furrowed brow and Old Testament beard commanded respect. Nighttime allowed Nemo, a shy seven-year-old whose hair became rumpled as he tossed and turned in bed, to escape into the fabulous and slightly sinister realm of Slumberland. The family’s regular rounds included hosting cousins and in-laws, going to church on Sundays, and making the occasional jaunt to the department stores-which were just starting to emerge as palaces of consumption. His frumpy parents kept up appearances in a solidly genteel household, complete with a white picket fence on the outside and an African American maid toiling away in the kitchen. By day, the boy was firmly lodged in the respectable and decorous world of middle-class white America. He died in 1934.Ī Tale of the Jungle Imps by Felix Fiddle, which appeared in the Cincinnati Enquirer over more than 40 instalments.At the beginning of the last century, a little boy named Nemo was haunted by recurring nightmares of a bizarre and unruly land where the conventions of everyday life were turned upside down. McCay, born in September 1869, was best known for the comic strip 'Little Nemo' that started in 1905, and the animated cartoon 'Gertie the Dinosaur' in 1914. Clicking on the tab at the end of the story will take a user to a page for Winsor McCay. The interactive comic strip provides a small tab at the lower right area for visitors to click to see the continuation of the story.

'The logo only works in modern browsers like Google Chrome, Firefox, Safari, Opera, Internet Explorer 9 and 10 but not in Internet Explorer versions 7 and 8,' it said. The doodle will run on modern browsers only. Interestingly, as per a site, not all visitors may be able to experience the interactive doodle. The two have a series of adventures together in Googleland. Like the original comic strip, in the doodle too Nemo falls from his bed into a hole and is rescued by Princess Camille.

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