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Jeet Heer

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Jeet Heer
Born
India[1]
OccupationWriter
Notable workA Comics Studies Reader (2008)

Jeet Heer is a Canadian author, comics critic,[2] literary critic and journalist.[3] He is a national affairs correspondent for The Nation magazine[4] and a former staff writer at The New Republic. Other publications for which he has written include the National Post, The New Yorker, The Paris Review, and the Virginia Quarterly Review. Heer was a member of the 2016 jury for the Scotiabank Giller Prize.[5] His anthology A Comics Studies Reader, with Kent Worcester, won the 2010 Rollins Book Award.[6] Since May 2022, he has hosted The Time of Monsters with Jeet Heer podcast,[7] referring to a famous, if possibly distorted, quotation from Italian Marxist Antonio Gramsci.[8]

Heer was born to Indian parents and was raised as a Sikh.[9][10]

Selected works

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  • Arguing Comics: Literary Masters on a Popular Medium (edited with Kent Worcester) (2004)[11]
  • A Comics Studies Reader (edited with Kent Worcester) (2008)[12]
  • The Superhero Reader (edited with Kent Worcester and Charles Hatfield) (2013)[13][14]
  • Too Asian: Racism, Privilege, and Post-Secondary Education (edited with Michael C.K. Ma, Davina Bhandar and R.J. Gilmour) (2012)[15]
  • In Love with Art: Françoise Mouly's Adventures in Comics with Art Spiegelman (2013)[16][17][18]
  • Sweet Lechery (2014)[19]

References

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  1. ^ Heer, Jeet [@HeerJeet] (September 22, 2023). "I was born in India, my family lived in the heart of the partition & suffered accordingly, I've always opposed Khalistan movement. But despite all that I think this defense of extraterritorial murder is disgusting" (Tweet). Retrieved October 10, 2024 – via X (formerly Twitter).
  2. ^ Dueben, Alex (October 13, 2014). "A Conversation with Jeet Heer". The Comics Journal. Archived from the original on April 20, 2017. Retrieved June 13, 2017.
  3. ^ "Jeet Heer". The New Republic. Archived from the original on March 15, 2017. Retrieved May 27, 2017.
  4. ^ "New 'Nation' Editor D.D. Guttenplan Names Jeet Heer National-Affairs Correspondent and Jane McAlevey Strikes Correspondent". Press Room. The Nation. June 18, 2019. Archived from the original on July 10, 2019. Retrieved July 10, 2019.
  5. ^ "2016 Jury". Scotiabank Giller Prize. Archived from the original on May 27, 2017. Retrieved April 1, 2026.
  6. ^ "Rollins Book Award". Southwest Popular/American Culture Association. Archived from the original on February 12, 2019. Retrieved January 27, 2019.
  7. ^ "Jeet Heer Departs Substack for The Nation". Press Room. The Nation. May 18, 2022. Retrieved January 12, 2025.
  8. ^ "Antonio Gramsci". Wikiquote. Retrieved January 12, 2025.[better source needed]
  9. ^ "Journalist and Author Jeet Heer Rejoins The Nation as National Affairs Correspondent". American Kahani. May 22, 2022. Retrieved April 1, 2026.
  10. ^ Heer, Jeet [@HeerJeet] (March 18, 2017). "11. I was raised a Sikh & our temples have a duty to provide food to all who enter, not just other Sikhs. Erickson's Jesus inferior to that" (Tweet). Retrieved April 1, 2026 – via Twitter.
  11. ^ Berlatsky, Eric L. (2012). "Review of Arguing Comics: Literary Masters on a Popular Medium". ImageTexT: Interdisciplinary Comics Studies. 6 (2). ISSN 1549-6732. Archived from the original on January 28, 2019. Retrieved January 26, 2019.
  12. ^ Baetens, Jan (2009). "A Comics Studies Reader". Image & Narrative. 10 (1): 240–241. ISSN 1780-678X. Archived from the original on April 10, 2018. Retrieved January 27, 2019.
  13. ^ Berlatsky, Eric L. (2015). "Review of The Superhero Reader". ImageTexT: Interdisciplinary Comics Studies. 8 (2). ISSN 1549-6732. Archived from the original on February 16, 2019. Retrieved January 27, 2019.
  14. ^ Koch, Robert T. Jr (Spring 2014). "Hatfield, Charles, Jeet Heer, and Kent Worcester, eds. The Superhero Reader. Jackson: UP of Mississippi, 2013. 319 pages; index". Studies in Popular Culture. 36 (2): 177–179. ISSN 0888-5753. JSTOR 24332658.
  15. ^ Dillabough, Jo-Anne (Fall 2014). "Jeet Heer, Michael C.K. Ma, Davina Bhandar and R.J. Gilmour, eds., Too Asian: Racism, Privilege, and Post-Secondary Education (Toronto: Between the Lines 2012)". Labour/Le Travail. 74: 358–361. JSTOR 24244205.
  16. ^ "What We're Loving: Mouly, Minneapolis, Marié". The Paris Review. January 10, 2014. Archived from the original on January 14, 2014. Retrieved June 13, 2017.
  17. ^ Acheson, Charles (2014). "Review of Jeet Heer's In Love with Art: Françoise Mouly's Adventures in Comics with Art Spiegelman". ImageTexT: Interdisciplinary Comics Studies. 7 (4). ISSN 1549-6732. Archived from the original on April 21, 2018. Retrieved June 13, 2017.
  18. ^ Harris, Sonia (December 18, 2013). "Committed: In Love with Art - Françoise Mouly's Adventures in Comics with Art Spiegelman by Jeet Heer". Comic Book Resources. Archived from the original on June 10, 2021. Retrieved June 13, 2017.
  19. ^ Hingston, Michael (January 9, 2015). "Sweet Lechery shows us why Jeet Heer became one of Canada's leading public intellectuals". The Globe and Mail. Archived from the original on May 11, 2017. Retrieved June 13, 2017.
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