Jeet Heer

25 books

Arguing Comics: Literary Masters on a Popular Medium by Umberto Eco, Irving Howe, Thomas Mann, Marshall McLuhan, E.E. Cummings, Manny Farber, Kent Worcester, Jeet Heer, Leslie Fiedler, Gilbert Seldes, Dorothy Parker, Delmore Schwartz

Arguing Comics: Literary Masters on a Popular Medium

Umberto Eco, Irving Howe, Thomas Mann, Marshall McLuhan, E.E. Cummings, Manny Farber, Kent Worcester, Jeet Heer, Leslie Fiedler, Gilbert Seldes, Dorothy Parker, Delmore Schwartz

176 pages • 2004

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The Best American Comics Criticism by Robert C. Harvey, Frank Miller, Sammy Harkham, Will Eisner, Sarah Boxer, Chris Ware, Kim Deitch, Marjane Satrapi, John Updike, Ken Parille, Jeet Heer, John Hodgman, Jonathan Lethem, Donald Phelps, Daniel Clowes, David Hajdu, Chester Brown, Dan Nadel, Seth, Will Elder, Yoshihiro Tatsumi, Jonathan Franzen, Benjamin Schwartz, Gerard Jones, Douglas Wolk

The Best American Comics Criticism

Robert C. Harvey, Frank Miller, Sammy Harkham, Will Eisner, Sarah Boxer, Chris Ware, Kim Deitch, Marjane Satrapi, John Updike, Ken Parille, Jeet Heer, John Hodgman, Jonathan Lethem, Donald Phelps, Daniel Clowes, David Hajdu, Chester Brown, Dan Nadel, Seth, Will Elder, Yoshihiro Tatsumi, Jonathan Franzen, Benjamin Schwartz, Gerard Jones, Douglas Wolk

360 pages • 2009

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The Comics of Chris Ware: Drawing Is a Way of Thinking by Martha B. Kuhlman, Peter R. Sattler, Joanna Davis-McElligatt, Matt Godbey, Benjamin Widiss, Jeet Heer, Katherine Roeder, Jacob Brogan, Shawn Gilmore, Isaac Cates, Marc Singer, David M. Ball, Georgiana Banita, Margaret Fink Berman, Daniel Worden

The Comics of Chris Ware: Drawing Is a Way of Thinking

Martha B. Kuhlman, Peter R. Sattler, Joanna Davis-McElligatt, Matt Godbey, Benjamin Widiss, Jeet Heer, Katherine Roeder, Jacob Brogan, Shawn Gilmore, Isaac Cates, Marc Singer, David M. Ball, Georgiana Banita, Margaret Fink Berman, Daniel Worden

238 pages • 2010

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In Love with Art: Francoise Mouly's Adventures in Comics with Art Spiegelman (Exploded Views) by Jeet Heer

In Love with Art: Francoise Mouly's Adventures in Comics with Art Spiegelman (Exploded Views)

Jeet Heer

136 pages • 2013

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Little Orphan Annie Volume 1: Will Tomorrow Ever Come? 1924-1927 by Harold Gray, Dean Mullaney, Jeet Heer

Little Orphan Annie Volume 1: Will Tomorrow Ever Come? 1924-1927

Little Orphan Annie: The Complete Daily Comics #1

Harold Gray, Dean Mullaney, Jeet Heer

383 pages • 2008

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The Superhero Reader by Scott Bukatman, Lillian Robinson, Will Brooker, Gloria Steinem, Kent Worcester, Jeet Heer, Henry Jenkins, John Shelton Lawrence, Richard Reynolds, Jennifer Stuller, Walter J. Ong, Adilifu Nama, Robert Jewett, Lorrie Palmer, Philip Wylie, Roger B. Rollin, Peter Coogan, Fredric Wertham, Trina Robbins, Andy Medhurst, John G. Cawelti, Charles Hatfield, Gerard Jones, Karin Kukkonen, Jeffrey Brown, Jules Feiffer, Geoff Klock

The Superhero Reader

Scott Bukatman, Lillian Robinson, Will Brooker, Gloria Steinem, Kent Worcester, Jeet Heer, Henry Jenkins, John Shelton Lawrence, Richard Reynolds, Jennifer Stuller, Walter J. Ong, Adilifu Nama, Robert Jewett, Lorrie Palmer, Philip Wylie, Roger B. Rollin, Peter Coogan, Fredric Wertham, Trina Robbins, Andy Medhurst, John G. Cawelti, Charles Hatfield, Gerard Jones, Karin Kukkonen, Jeffrey Brown, Jules Feiffer, Geoff Klock

342 pages • 2013

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Sweet Lechery: Reviews, Essays & Profiles by Jeet Heer

Sweet Lechery: Reviews, Essays & Profiles

Jeet Heer

240 pages • 2014

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Walt and Skeezix, Vol. 1: 1921-1922 by Chris Ware, Jeet Heer, Frank King

Walt and Skeezix, Vol. 1: 1921-1922

Walt and Skeezix #1

Chris Ware, Jeet Heer, Frank King

398 pages • 2005

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Black Eye Nr. 1: Graphic Transmissions to Cause Ocular Hypertension by Ryan Standfest

Black Eye Nr. 1: Graphic Transmissions to Cause Ocular Hypertension

Black Eye

Ryan Standfest

112 pages • paperback • 2011

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A Comics Studies Reader by Robert S. Petersen, Robert C. Harvey, Adam L. Kern, John A. Lent, Kent Worcester, Jeet Heer, Gilbert Seldes, Fusami Ogi, Martin Barker, David Kasakove, David Kunzle, Anne Rubenstein, Art Spiegelman, Thierry Groensteen, Gene Kannenberg Jr., David Carrier, Pascal Lefevre, Bart Beaty, Ariel Dorfman, Thomas Andrae, John Benson, Amy Kiste Nyberg, Peter Coogan, Joseph Witek, Annalisa Di Liddo, Fredric Wertham, Charles Hatfield, Roger Sabin, Hillary L. Chute, W.J.T. Mitchell, M. Thomas Inge

A Comics Studies Reader

Robert S. Petersen, Robert C. Harvey, Adam L. Kern, John A. Lent, Kent Worcester, Jeet Heer, Gilbert Seldes, Fusami Ogi, Martin Barker, David Kasakove, David Kunzle, Anne Rubenstein, Art Spiegelman, Thierry Groensteen, Gene Kannenberg Jr., David Carrier, Pascal Lefevre, Bart Beaty, Ariel Dorfman, Thomas Andrae, John Benson, Amy Kiste Nyberg, Peter Coogan, Joseph Witek, Annalisa Di Liddo, Fredric Wertham, Charles Hatfield, Roger Sabin, Hillary L. Chute, W.J.T. Mitchell, M. Thomas Inge

380 pages • 2008

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