Author Archives: Jeet Heer
Nuts
Gahan Wilson’s comic strip confronts the mysteries of childhood with often shocking frankness. Continue reading
Iowa Comics Conference Notebook
A visit to Iowa with a crowd of cartoonists, publishers and academics. Continue reading
Lines and Frames: An Interview with R.O. Blechman
The legendary illustrator and animator talks about drawing, film, and family. Continue reading
A Chester Brown Notebook
Some notes that try to tease out a fuller account of Chester’s remarkable “comic-strip memoir.” Continue reading
Notes on S. Clay Wilson
If we acknowledge that he was the artist who gave permission for Crumb to become Crumb, then it’s clear that Wilson was the central artist of the underground generation. Continue reading
Black Readers & White Comics
Some more notes on race and comics. Although the notes deal with this issue from a variety of angles, one topic that I keep returning to here is the question of black readers of the comic strips. Continue reading
