Jeet Heer is a Toronto based journalist who focuses on arts and culture. His articles have appeared in The National Post, Slate.com, the Boston Globe, The Walrus, the Literary Review of Canada, This Magazine, Books in Canada and Toro. He is also finishing a doctoral thesis at York University on the cultural politics of Little Orphan Annie. Jeet Heer is co-editor, with Kent Worcester, of Arguing Comics: Literary Masters on a Popular Medium (Jackson: University of Mississippi Press, 2004). With Chris Ware and Chris Oliveros, he is editing a series of volumes reprinting Frank King’s Gasoline Alley, two volumes of which have been published: Walt and Skeezix: Book One (Montréal: Drawn and Quarterly, 2005), Walt and Skeezix: Book Two (Drawn and Quarterly, 2006). He has written introductory essays to the following books: George Herriman’s Krazy and Ignatz 1935-1936 (Seattle: Fantagraphics, 2005), George Herriman’s Krazy and Ignatz 1939-1940 (Fantagraphics, 2007) and Clare Briggs’s Oh Skin-nay (Drawn and Quarterly, 2007). Contact: jeetheer@hotmail.com