When You Wake You're Still in a Dream

I hate linking to things found off of Boing Boing and the like, but I just have to do this one:  Expirable copyright makes giant-sized Little Nemo possible.  Given their beliefs about IP, Boing Boing pushes the point about public domain, however that's not what interests me here.  What interests me is this:  full-sized, full-colour Little Nemo in Slumberland strips.

For those who've never heard of it:  Little Nemo in Slumberland was a strip created by Windsor McKay that ran from 1905 to 1911 (and then 1911 to 1913 under the title In the Land of Wonderful Dreams).  It chronicled the adventures of a boy (Nemo) through the land of dreams (Slumberland).  The strips followed a fairly set sequence, with the majority of the strip devoted to Nemo's adventures in Slumberland, with the final panel showing Nemo awakening (usually somehow connected to whatever tht week's adventures were).  It appeared every Sunday, and is just an amazing piece of work: it took up the full-page, and was full of wonderful colours—and that's where the problems with most of the Nemo reprints come in.  Most of the available reprints (of which, only Little Nemo in the Palace of Ice, and Further Adventures appears to still be in print) tend to shrink the pages down, making the text hard to read, and the illustrations less detailed.  (Palace of Ice is about 10"x14", compared to the original 16"x22" page sizes.)

Little Nemo in Slumberland - So Many Splendid Sundays restores the prints to their original sizes, and as close to the original colours as possible.  I've actually known about it for a few weeks now, but the NY Times have only just published an article on it.  Unfortunately, 120USD (plus shipping) is more than I can afford to spend on a book, no matter how amazing it may be.  I may have to stick to trying to find the (slightly shrunk) calendar instead.