The artist and car­toon pio­neer Win­sor McCay (1869?-1934) did not make the world’s first ani­mat­ed film. That dis­tinc­tion goes to Emile Cohl and his 76-sec­ond long Fan­tas­magorie (1908). But McK­ay, who was also the author of the pop­u­lar week­ly Lit­tle Nemo com­ic strips, made a con­tri­bu­tion to car­toons that is arguably even more impor­tant. Sweet, mis­chie­vous Ger­tie, … Con­tin­ue read­ing Ger­tie the Dinosaur: The Moth­er of all Car­toon Char­ac­ters (1914)