Arguing comics
Subtitle: literary masters on a popular medium
By: edited by Jeet Heer and Kent Worcester.
Contributors: Heer, Jeet.; Worcester, Kent, 1959-
Publisher: University Press of Mississippi
Published: 2004
Place of publication: Jackson
Language: eng
Number of pages: 176
Subjects: Comic books, strips, etc. -- History and criticism
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. xx-xxiii) and index.
Table of contents: title: From "The tyranny of the pictorial" / Sidney Fairfield; title: From "The reign of the spectacular" / Annie Russell Marble; title: From "The humor of the colored supplement" / Ralph Bergengren; title: Introduction to Frans Masereel, Passionate journey: a novel told in 165 woodcuts / Thomas Mann; title: "The Krazy Kat that walks by himself" / Gilbert Seldes; title: "A foreword to Krazy" / e. e. cummings; title: "A mash note to Crockett Johnson" / Dorothy Parker; title: "Steig's cartoons: review of All embarrassed by William Steig" / Clement Greenberg; title: "Limits of common sense: review of Years of wrath: a cartoon history, 1931 1945 by David Low" / Clement Greenberg; title: "Notes on mass culture" / Irving Howe; title: "Masterpieces as cartoons" / Delmore Schwartz; title: "Woofed with dreams" / Robert Warshow; title: "Paul, the horror comics, and Dr. Wertham" / Robert Warshow; title: "The labyrinth of Saul Steinberg" / Harold Rosenberg; title: "Comic strips" / Manny Farber; title: "Comic strips" / Manny Farber; title: "Mickey Mouse and Americanism" / Walter J. Ong; title: "Bogey sticks for pogo men" / Walter J. Ong; title: From The mechanical bride : folklore of industrial man / Marshall McLuhan; title: "Comics: mad vestibule to TV" / Marshall McLuhan; title: From Love and death: a study in censorship / Gershon Legman; title: "The middle against both ends" / Leslie Fiedler; title: "Over the cliff" / Donald Phelps; title: "Reprise: 'Love and death'" / Donald Phelps; title: "C.L.R. James on comic strips" / C.L.R. James; title: "Letter to Daniel Bell" / C.L.R. James; title: "The myth of superman" / Umberto Eco.