Little Ego

Little Ego appropriates the look and feel of Winsor McCay's transcendent masterpiece, Little Nemo in Slumberland. Like McCay, Giardino uses the dream formula to free the narrative from the logical strictures a cruelly earthbound reader might seek to impose. But that's not all: in a single deft stroke, Giardino also shakes off any moral strictures as well. Who could object to Ego's erotic frolics - with men, women, the occasional reptile or household implement, or whatever's handiest - when it's all just a dream?