Jeet Heer

Jeet Heer is a cultural critic and co-editor of Arguing Comics: Literary Masters on a Popular Medium (2004) and A Comics Studies Reader (2009). He is a contributing writer to the New Republic, and his essays have appeared in the Virginia Quarterly Review, the Literary Review of Canada, the Boston Globe, Slate, and numerous other publications.

Render Unto “Hail, Caesar!”

Far from being a “trifle,” "Hail, Caesar!" is thematically profound, a heartfelt and rueful tribute to the craft of filmmaking....

JEET HEER

FILM

Fire in the Hole: The New Yorker's In-House Radicals

EDITING THE NEW YORKER is a little like being a controlled demolitions expert. In both jobs, you are entrusted with valuable, long-standing structures and explosive material, and given the responsibility of ensuring that targets are properly selected, and that explosions leave ...

JEET HEER

The Ceiling Worker: Ben Katchor's "The Cardboard Valise"

BEN KATCHOR IS THE Joseph Mitchell of contemporary comics. Mitchell, along with his close friend A.J. Liebling, was a pivotal early New Yorker reporter who famously made a speciality of describing the peripheral rascals, layabouts, and oddballs of the Big ...

JEET HEER

FICTION

COMICS