THE ARCHETYPAL ARCHIVE

Last month, thanks to the auspices of the British weekly THE OBSERVER, Alan Moore once again bestowed upon a panting public his thoughts on ...

 "Oh, God, that I were a man! I would eat his heart in the market place!"-- Beatrice lamenting the limitations of her not very mus...

Whereas empirical thinking is essentially directed toward establishing an unequivocal relation between  specific  "causes" and  s...

In Part 1 , I wrote: Conscresence, more than its roughly equivalent term "coagulation," suggests the process by which seemingly...

Nietzsche's "high spirits" line from TWILIGHT OF THE IDOLS prompted this current line of thought. Once more, with (high) feeli...

Dave Sim will likely never read any of my analyses, unless I choose to snail-mail them to him. But though he would likely have no good opini...

In this essay  I cited FRANK'S REAL PA as an example of a mythcomic that communicated its mythic content purely through wordless images....

For the most part, whenever I've used the term "complexity" on this blog since its beginning in 2007, I've been referring ...

As a prelude to this week's mythcomic  I have to comment somewhat on the ideas behind the so-called "graphic novel." The ter...

After reading the news of this future Dave Sim project on THE BEAT, I made these two observations: I loved the “history of comic art” ...

At the end of the previous essay, I said: When I do a corresponding "null-myth" for this entry next week, I'll endeavor to ...

I said at the end of PLAYING WITH FUNCTIONS  that I'd seek to find examples of the four potentialities that might be more accessible tha...

One more quick observation on the subject mentioned in my last post : It occurs to wonder, why would NB be so intemperate about an offhand...

I mentioned here  that I don't agree with Dave Sim's assertion that Margaret Mitchell's GONE WITH THE WIND was a precursor to mo...

In this essay I referenced Dave Sim's GLAMOURPUSS writings, which reflected, in part, on the career of Margaret Mitchell. I pointed out...

In this essay I cited this Heideggerian morsel: "'How we find ourselves' expresses the fact that we are thrown into a 'w...

My title for this essay-series is meant not as a statement of unalloyed fact, but an indicator of a tendency that I feel to be grounded in t...

Just for a laugh, let's take Gary Groth's paradigm and see whether or not it applies to him just as it does to Sim. Once more into...

Shows how much attention I pay to either Fantagraphics or Aardvark-Vanaheim these days, as I just found out last week from this BEAT post t...

I recently troubled to excerpt a portion of a Dave Sim letter from about fourteen years ago.  Having delved that far back in the past alrea...