THE ARCHETYPAL ARCHIVE

Years ago, during one of my many forum-arguments, I made some comments about the elitist mentality, and an opponent demurred at the use of...

Although in the preceding essay I pronounced Jules Feiffer the first pluralist comics-critic by virtue of his remarks in THE GREAT COMIC BOO...

"The strawberry grows underneath the nettle And wholesome berries thrive and ripen best Neighbour'd by fruit of baser quality"...

Before Jules Feiffer wrote THE GREAT COMIC BOOK HEROES, American cultural criticism had seen (outside the ranks of comics fandom itself) a f...