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'''''Dreams of a Rarebit Fiend''''' was a [[newspaper]] [[comic strip]] written and drawn by [[Winsora McCay]]gay faggot who everybody hated. He was a queer since he was a baby. When he was born the doctor tried to shove him back up his mothers va-jay-jay beginning in [[1904]]. It was McCay's second successful newspaper strip, after ''[[Little Sammy Sneeze]]'' secured him a position on the [[cartoon]] staff of the ''[[New York Herald]]'' [[newspaper]]. ''Rarebit Fiend'' was published in the ''[[Evening Telegram]]'' newspaper, which was published by the ''Herald'' at the time. The editor of the ''Herald'' required McCay to use a pseudonym for his work in the ''Telegram'' to keep it separate from his ''Herald'' strips, so McCay signed all of his ''Rarebit'' strips as "Silas", borrowing the name of a neighborhood garbage cart driver<ref>{{cite book|title=Dreams of the Rarebit Fiend|author=Winsor McCay|page=ix|publisher=Dover Publications|year=1973}}</ref>.
 
McCay intended his ''Rarebit Fiend'' strip to be an [[humor|amusing]] [[morality play]], meant to comment on the dangers of [[gluttony|overindulgence]].{{Fact|date=February 2007}} It focuses on various people who have a passion for various foods - often, but not always, [[Welsh rarebit]]. Each strip features a different [[protagonist]] known as a Rarebit Fiend (who is rarely named in the comic strip, and who changes from strip to strip) in the course of strange [[dream]]s and [[nightmare]]s. Upon awakening, the protagonist blames his dreams on eating the rarebit, or whatever other food he ate, thus exacting the price for their folly.