THE ARCHETYPAL ARCHIVE

By the title, I mean that, since the passing of the former COMICS JOURNAL editor on November 13-- a JOURNAL obituary appears here -- this po...

Here's a follow-up statement to my two July issues on the above topic, originally written on DEBATE POLITICS. _____ The original ...

I confess that I'd never heard of the " Marshmallow Challenge " until I decided to construct a pun combining "marshmallow...

This mythcomics essay didn't start as a blogpost, but as an essay for Robert Young's COMICS INTERPRETER magazine.   The issue for wh...

I've mentioned Raymond Durgnat (1932-2002) in passing a few times on this blog, but in the coming days I plan to analyze one of his piec...

Two of this week's essays are devoted to situations in which female characters are "victims' (and, in one case, "Victims...

Black people aren't too fond of bondage. We think that it's redundant.-- Anthony from DESIGNING WOMEN episode "Of Human Bonda...

Just another little snippet I put on HU: ____________ The consistency with which you've been critiquing the handling of Wonder Woma...

As a quick follow-up to my last essay , I'll expand upon some of the reasons that I don't think it would be a big crisis if all the ...

The heavens must have wanted me to tilt with Noah Berlasky again. I glanced at HU a couple of times in the last month, and found nothing wor...