Zenas Winsor McCay was born on September 26th, 1871 in Spring Lake, Michigan. He grew up in Michigan with his parents, his older brother, Arthur, and his younger sister, Mae. Winsor McCay was an extremely talented child. McCay's drawing skills got better the more he drew, which was all time. People started to notice his talent when he would do something that he would call "memory sketching." This type of drawing involved drawing a scene or a room or a person from memory. McCay would memory sketch to impress others, and others were certainly impressed. When McCay got older, his father demanded that he go to Business school, in order to get a "business education." McCay agreed and attended Cleary Business College in Michigan. At school, McCay hardly attended classes. Instead, he was hired by a dime museum (a indoor circus-like show) to draw portraits of patrons. This is what proved to McCay that drawing was more than a passion, it could be a career (Canemaker, 1...