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Through one of its most elaborate ever doodle, search-engine major Google goes on to celebrate the 107th anniversary of American cartoonist Winsor McCay's famous cartoon strip Little Nemo in Slumberland.
Monday's doodle is actually a representation of McCay's famous fictional comic strip and deals with the adventures of this fictional character - Nemo a boy of six to seven years- Nemo's as he tries to reach the Princess of Slumberland, daughter of King Morpheus, who desires Nemo for a playmate. The comic strip appeared first in 1905 in the New York Herald .
On Google's homepage the strip has been titled Little Nemo in Googleland and users are likely to be treated to a scrolling animated narration of the story.
Like the original comic strip, in the doodle too Nemo falls from his bed into a hole and is rescued by Princess Camille. The two have a series of adventures together in Googleland.
Interestingly, as per a site, StateofSearch.com not all visitors may be able to experience the interactive doodle. The doodle will run on modern browsers only.
"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 interactive comic strip provides a small tab at the lower right area for visitors to click to see the continuation of the story. Clicking on the tab at the end of the story will take a user to a Search Results page for Winsor McCay.
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. He died in 1934.
His first major comic strip series was A Tale of the Jungle Imps by Felix Fiddle , which appeared in the Cincinnati Enquirer over more than 40 instalments.
McCay's comic strip work is credited for influencing generations of future artists.
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