With the advent of motion pictures, McCay leveraged his public popularlity as a cartoonist to intriduce what he would become most famous for – animation! hailed as the Father of Animation, McCay’s static cartoons are no less vibrant and unique. Volume 7 features a collection of McCay’s rare short runs strips Poor Jake and The Dope Chronicles, along with a selection of strips from Dream of the Rarebit Fiend and A Pilgrim’s Progress, originally published in late 1908.