Author Archives: Jeet Heer
An Interview with Walter Biggins
A talk with the outgoing acquisition editor of the University Press of Misissipi, by far the leading publisher of scholarly comics criticism in North America. Continue reading
Fact and Fancy in Seth’s G.N.B. Double C
Everybody misunderstands Seth. Popular mythology has pegged the cartoonist as a nostalgist hankering over the lost past. In fact, Seth is a fantastist obsessed not with the world-that-was but rather the world-as-it-might-have-been. Continue reading
Jack Kirby: Hand of Fire Roundtable (Part 3)
William Blake, Steve Ditko, and the idea of analogues in this final part of our Hand of Fire roundtable. Continue reading
Jack Kirby: Hand of Fire Roundtable (Part 2)
Part two of our Jack Kirby/Hand of Fire roundtable, in which Philip K. Dick makes an appearance. Continue reading
Jack Kirby: Hand of Fire Roundtable (Part 1)
A roundtable on the occasion of Charles Hatfield’s book, Hand of Fire: The Comics Art of Jack Kirby, with contributions from Jonathan Lethem, Glen David Gold, Sarah Boxer, Doug Harvey, Dan Nadel, and Robert Fiore. Continue reading
Crumb in the Beginning
In 1987, the proposal to bring all of Crumb back into print in a uniform set of books was a radical publishing act which re-contextualized and re-vitalized an already momentous body of work. Continue reading
Iowa Comics Conference Notebook
A visit to Iowa with a crowd of cartoonists, publishers and academics. Continue reading
