"Who are you, Little Nemo? A sumptuous Art Nouveau antique, long since stored in its showcase of comic book history? An alter ego from all childhood, mischievously duplicated by the adult gaze sliding across the page of the newspaper or of the album? A milestone of your time, circulating with the fluidity of dreams, between the Vienna of Doctor Freud, a Borobudur of archaic obsessions, and the Chicago of the Columbian Exhibition? In pyjamas or in a prince's costume, crossing the hypnotic corridors of impossible palaces to lose ourselves with you in the labyrinths of the imagination, to answer all these questions, perhaps it was time to give you the floor, from these three temporalities? Who now form your immortal aura: the weekly hero who retraces the trail of his perfect adventures, the character now capable of contemplating himself from his multicolored celebrity in the passage of the bloody century the mythographer who discerns, under the veil of splendor, the reasons for this admiring tremor which inhabits each of your readers." Pierre Pigot

Little Nemo by Pierre Pigot. Cover illustration by François Schuiten.