THE ARCHETYPAL ARCHIVE

 This seven-page SPIRIT strip, dubbed "Li'l Adam" in reprints, was one of many clever parodies Will Eisner produced in the pos...

  So if centric icons within a narrative are "organizational matrices," is there a better term to assign to the organizing princip...

I'm aware of no fully mythic Thanksgiving stories. But Will Eisner managed a cute near-myth with a tale of a turkey who is seemingly spa...

 When I went myth-hunting in the pages of Quality's publication UNCLE SAM QUARTERLY-- a short-lived attempt to give the ultra-patriotic ...

 A line of thought from a thread talking about what types of illustrative work may combine art and text without being comics-- __________ Go...

 Though READ COMICS ONLINE has become my go-to site for scans of obscure comics, even they couldn't provide assistance for this essay: r...

For a city boy, Will Eisner occasionally displayed a flair for emulating the feel of country folklore. MAD MOES isn’t quite as good as his ...

Like most of the SPIRIT stories I've classified as mythcomics, "Black Gold" is not one of the better known stories in the cano...

I've been re-reading Frank Miller's first run on DAREDEVIL to suss out its possible status as a myth-comic.Though I've not finis...

This down-side of the "myth of money" appears the year after the more jovial P"Gell story, and this time Eisner is concerned ...

I remarked in THE SPIRIT KILLETH THE MYTH that the Spirit's most mythic aspect was the sexual vibe he had with the many female foes and ...

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...

In BETTER THE DEVIL YOU KNOW PT. 2  I wrote: ...it's the nature of all [literary] constructs to be more unreal than real.  Their rel...

In TRANSCENDENCE WHAT AIN'T SUBLIME , I printed a few excerpts from the 1951 Harvey Kurtzman story, "Man and Superman."  I did...