THE ARCHETYPAL ARCHIVE

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

 A qualification to my definition of repetition here : because as I said that repeated scenarios for this type of fictional sadism took plac...

 My recent discourses on "the limited and the limitless" aspects of creative expression reminded me of a passage from Northrop Fry...

I’ve discoursed several times on Ken Akamatsu’s LOVE HINA, summarizing its series concept  here and condensing its joined themes of female ...

                  In the three-part LOVE OVER WILL (FOR NOW) series, starting here, I listed five of the mythcomics I’d reviewed here becau...

 The original series to which this essay belongs was called just “CHALLENGER VS. DEFENDER,” but I find that “aggressor” seems to capture bet...

 One detail I didn’t mention in my quasi-review of THE POETICS OF MYTH is that when the author presents his rather rushed summary of Northr...

In my review of the ONE POUND GOSPEL arc ”The Lamb Resurrected,” I called attention to the way artist-writer Rumiko Takahashi u...

In the last two sections of FOUR AGES OF DYNAMIS , I found myself questioning the conclusions I'd made in the 2012 essay-series GRAVITY...

One more line of thought did indeed develop from my meditations here on the alignment of the four Fryean mythoi with my concepts of tonal g...

Here I'll be bringing my formulations in Part 1 and Part 2 into line with some of my observations regarding audience-conviction. In ...