THE ARCHETYPAL ARCHIVE

 Let's see if I can get in one last barnstorming essay for the last day of 2025, building on what I wrote in this essay : when it comes ...

 This seven-page SPIRIT strip, dubbed "Li'l Adam" in reprints, was one of many clever parodies Will Eisner produced in the pos...

  Rather than wasting time summing up how Al Capp's "comic-within-a-comic" FEARLESS FOSDICK evolved within Al Capp's LI...

Just a minute ago, I concluded Part 1 by saying: In the upcoming Part 2, I'll justify the connection of the two types of meaning with...

In short, ODKIN SON OF ODKIN is an assortment of odds and ends, lacking the relative unity of KING OF THE WORLD. But certainly many of thos...

There are almost no scans online for me to pirate for this week's essay, except this one: And it happens to be the same scan I...

In order to explain why I'm choosing to devote a lot of space to one essay in Raymond Durgnat's 1967 collection in FILMS AND FEELING...

Since I gave an example of a LI'L ABNER mythcomic this week, I decided to recycle a portion of an earlier FEMMES FORMIDABLES essay as a...

In STRONG CONTINUITY, WEAK CONTINUITY PT. 2, I wrote: My re-reading of ABNER is by no means complete. However, in the upcoming "myt...

One of the biggest events in the history of Al Capp's LI'L ABNER appeared in 1952, when the titular bachelor hillbilly-- who had...

In GRAPHICALLY ROMANTIC I said: I want to be very careful in evaluating what if any ways that the "long melodrama" strips of t...

In my previous essay I visualized the "geometrical approximations of the two sublimities" as a series of "fields of force,....