Arguing comics: literary masters on a popular medium

From "The tyranny of the pictorial" / Sidney Fairfield

From "The reign of the spectacular" / Annie Russell Marble

From "The humor of the colored supplement" / Ralph Bergengren

Introduction to Frans Masereel, Passionate journey: a novel told in 165 woodcuts / Thomas Mann

"The Krazy Kat that walks by himself" / Gilbert Seldes

"A foreword to Krazy" / e. e. cummings

"A mash note to Crockett Johnson" / Dorothy Parker

"Steig's cartoons: review of All embarrassed by William Steig" / Clement Greenberg

"Limits of common sense: review of Years of wrath: a cartoon history, 1931 1945 by David Low" / Clement Greenberg

"Notes on mass culture" / Irving Howe

"Masterpieces as cartoons" / Delmore Schwartz

"Woofed with dreams" / Robert Warshow

"Paul, the horror comics, and Dr. Wertham" / Robert Warshow

"The labyrinth of Saul Steinberg" / Harold Rosenberg

"Comic strips" / Manny Farber

"Comic strips" / Manny Farber

"Mickey Mouse and Americanism" / Walter J. Ong

"Bogey sticks for pogo men" / Walter J. Ong

From The mechanical bride : folklore of industrial man / Marshall McLuhan

"Comics: mad vestibule to TV" / Marshall McLuhan

From Love and death: a study in censorship / Gershon Legman

"The middle against both ends" / Leslie Fiedler

"Over the cliff" / Donald Phelps

"Reprise: 'Love and death'" / Donald Phelps

"C.L.R. James on comic strips" / C.L.R. James

"Letter to Daniel Bell" / C.L.R. James

"The myth of superman" / Umberto Eco.