Author Archives: Jeet Heer

Cartoon Monarch: Otto Soglow and the Little King

BY Jeet Heer May 21, 2012 11 Comments

Otto Soglow was one of the central cartoonists of mid-century America. With this book, we can finally begin to gauge his achievement. Continue reading →

A TCAF Tip

BY Jeet Heer May 4, 2012 Leave a comment

When in Toronto… Continue reading →

Jack Kirby: Hand of Fire Roundtable (Part 3)

BY Jeet Heer May 3, 2012 232 Comments

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)

BY Jeet Heer May 1, 2012 44 Comments

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)

BY Jeet Heer Apr 30, 2012 34 Comments

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

BY Jeet Heer Apr 5, 2012 5 Comments

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 →