Jeet Heer

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. The publications he has written for include The National Post, The New Yorker, The Paris Review, and 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 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 radical Antonio Gramsci.^[8]

Jeet Heer
Born	India[1]
Nationality	Canadian
Occupation	Writer

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

Selected works

• 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 (with Michael C.K. Ma, Davina Bhandar and R.J. Gilmour, eds. Toronto: Between the Lines, 2012.^[15]
• In Love with Art: Françoise Mouly's Adventures in Comics with Art Spiegelman (2013)^[16][17][18]
• Sweet Lechery (2014)^[19]