THE ARCHETYPAL ARCHIVE

One peculiar phrase from this Tom Spurgeon essay caught my attention, due to its puzzling content: The model that dominates comics dis...

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...

A lot of comics-forums remind me of a certain SOUTH PARK episode in which the main characters egged on a fight between two other kids who di...

I took a quick glance at the "Spurgeon blowjob" post, scrolled to the bottom, and saw that, true to form, Heidi McDonald had close...

So here's the exchange that prompted Tom Spurgeon's unveiling of his elitist tendencies, despite an earlier denial of same on THE BE...

I was trying to avoid putting Tom Spurgeon in my subject list, but now it seems there's no avoiding it. I've never met Spurgeon. I h...