Jeet Heer

Biography

Jeet Heer is journalist who writes extensively on arts and culture. He is the editor of Arguing Comics: Literary Masters on a Popular Medium (Mississippi, 2004) and wrote the long introduction for Chris Ware’s edition of Frank King’s Walt and Skeezix (Drawn and Quarterly, 2005). His essays have appeared recently in American Prospect, the Los Angeles Times, and The Walrus. He also writes regularly for the Boston Globe’s Ideas section.

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ESSAYS / Spring 2006

Little Nemo in Comicsland

By Jeet Heer

At the beginning of the last century, a little boy named Nemo was haunted by recurring nightmares of a bizarre and unruly land where the conventions of everyday life were turned upside down. By day, the boy was firmly lodged in the...