THE ARCHETYPAL ARCHIVE

Jim Shooter passed on the last day of June this year. I won't be writing a general overview of his work, given that I only knew his Marv...

  Reader YBY wrote in the comments-section of this post:  I  always figured the people who worked [at the Journal] were true believers in th...

As a preface to my impending review of THE DARK KNIGHT: MASTER RACE, I decided that the short mythcomics review I posted for the 1986 DARK...

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...

No, not yet finished venting about the matters discussed here . I was never able to convince the posters on CBR of my credentials as a cla...

On the passing of Harlan Ellison this week, I wrote: _____ I never met Ellison, though I saw him when he spoke at a local convention, m...

In AN ARCHETYPAL LIBRARY I gave pride of place to the first two issues of Steve Englehart’s Epic-published COYOTE series. At the time ...

I was a bit surprised to find among my recent stats a link to this address,  which turned out to be the recrudescent web-presence of Dirk De...

This week I should produce my hundredth formal "mythcomics" entry. I've provided one entry each week since the first week of J...

I've been meaning for some time to get back to one particular issue I have with Abraham Riesman's muddled meditations on " Stan...

I don't imagine that Will Eisner's THE SPIRIT occupies as much importance for younger comics-fans as it did for my generation. Eve...

I addressed some of the problems with finding strong mythic discourses in comic strips in the three essays of the series THE LONG AND SHORT ...

I stated elsewhere that I was sure THE HOODED UTILITARIAN would give me more grist fot my critical mill. I didn't expect Noah's leak...

"As John Gardner said in his book ON MORAL FICTION, there is room in the world for trivial art, but it is only because high art exists ...

A recent forum-post reminded me of the momentous 1980 Harlan Ellison interview in COMICS JOURNAL #53. I hadn't read it for a while, and ...

MAGGIE: "We are the masters of our own dreams and fantasies..." PENNY: "Maggie's right. There is no such thing as the ...

The following is a reprint of my post on the BEAT regarding those ole debbils elitism and exceptionalism.  I may further develop these thou...