Arguing Comics : Literary Masters On A Popular Medium

Introduction vii Part One: Early Twentieth-Century Voices 1(36) From ``The Tyranny of the Pictorial'' 4(3) Sidney Fairfield From ``The Reign of the Spectacular'' 7(2) Annie Russell Marble From ``The Humor of the Colored Supplement'' 9(4) Ralph Bergengren Introduction to Frans Masereel, Passionate Journey: A Novel Told in 165 Woodcuts 13(9) Thomas Mann ``The Krazy Kat That Walks by Himself'' 22(8) Gilbert Seldes ``A Foreword to Krazy'' 30(5) E. E. Cummings ``A Mash Note to Crockett Johnson'' 35(2) Dorothy Parker Part Two: The New York Intellectuals 37(48) ``Steig's Cartoons: Review of All Embarrassed by William Steig'' 40(1) Clement Greenberg ``Limits of Common Sense: Review of Years of Wrath: A Cartoon History, 1931--1945 by David Low'' 41(2) Clement Greenberg ``Notes on Mass Culture'' 43(9) Irving Howe ``Masterpieces as Cartoons'' 52(11) Delmore Schwartz ``Woofed with Dreams'' 63(4) Robert Warshow ``Paul, the Horror Comics, and Dr. Wertham'' 67(14) Robert Warshow ``The Labyrinth of Saul Steinberg'' 81(4) Harold Rosenberg Part Three: The Postwar Mavericks 85(80) ``Comic Strips'' 88(3) Manny Farber ``Comic Strips'' 91(3) Manny Farber ``Mickey Mouse and Americanism'' 94(5) Walter J. Ong ``Bogey Sticks for Pogo Men'' 99(3) Walter J. Ong From The Mechanical Bride: Folklore of Industrial Man 102(5) Marshall McLuhan ``Comics: Mad Vestibule to TV'' 107(5) Marshall McLuhan From Love and Death: A Study in Censorship 112(10) Gershon Legman ``The Middle Against Both Ends'' 122(12) Leslie Fiedler ``Over the Cliff'' 134(4) Donald Phelps ``Reprise: `Love and Death''' 138(4) Donald Phelps ``C. L. R. James on Comic Strips'' 142(2) C. L. R. James ``Letter to Daniel Bell'' 144(2) C. L. R. James ``The Myth of Superman'' 146(19) Umberto Eco Essayists 165(6) Index 171