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''Little Sammy Sneeze'' was a comic strip by American cartoonist Winsor McCay. In each episode the titular Sammy sneezed himself into an awkward or disastrous predicament. The strip ran from July 24, 1904, until December 9, 1906, in the ''New York Herald'', where McCay was on the staff. It was McCay's first successful comic strip; he followed it with ''Dream of the Rarebit Fiend'' later in 1904, and his best-known strip ''Little Nemo in Slumberland'' in 1905. In contrast to the imaginative layouts of ''Little Nemo'', ''Sammy Sneeze'' was confined to a rigid grid and followed a strict formula: Sammy's sneeze would build frame by frame, contorting the protagonist's face until it erupted in the second-to-last panel. In the closing panel he suffered the consequences—often a kick in the rear. McCay targeted middle-class pretensions such as consumerism and squeamishness over bodily functions, while reaffirming the social order by ensuring that Sammy received punishment. McCay's artwork was finely detailed and highly accurate in its persistent repetition. He delved into modernist experimentation, shattering fourth walls and even the strip's panel borders. The panel-by-panel buildup displayed McCay's concern with depicting motion, a concern that was to culminate in his pioneering animated films of the 1910s, such as ''Gertie the Dinosaur'' (1914). ==Premise== The strip followed a simple concept: each week, little Sammy would sneeze with such power that it wreaked havoc with his surroundings. His sneeze would build up until its release with the onomatopoeia "Chow!" in the second-to-last panel. In the last panel he would suffer the consequences—being driven away by one of his victims, or often receiving a kick in the rear. Little Sammy Sneeze 1904-09-11.jpg|alt=|September 11, 1904 Little Sammy Sneeze 1905-04-30.jpg|alt=|April 30, 1905 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Little Sammy Sneeze」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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