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What’s your guilty pleasure, comic-wise?

Archie Comics. I first bought them for my daughter, then discovered that although the basic structure and storylines are by their nature constrained and formulaic, surprisingly, there’s a consistent and pleasurable level of cartooning craft in much of the artwork, something missing in the visual emanations many of the more erratic new-youngpup-flavours-of-the-month being constantly discovered and touted as geniuses.

The National Post interviews artist Paul Rivoche. Hype for the Toronto Comic Arts Festival sure is making Archie Thursdays a breeze.

Link via Journalista!

I love it when something Riverdale-related just falls in my lap in time for Archie Thursday. Canadian Cartoonist extraordinaire Kate Beaton combines two of my favourite things in one post; Archie comics and Heritage Minutes. I’m looking forward to swiping one of Beaton’s new books next week at the Toronto Comics Art Festival.

Archie tells you how it is in this cover detail from Archie Annual Digest #36.

“Better to read Archie comic books to study adolescent psychology than to think that you really know someone on Twitter. Jughead said that.”

- Christopher Walken

This won’t end well.

In this snappy five-pager Archie miscalculates Veronica’s capacity for jokes, though, in her defense, if Archie is telling the truth Sylvia is probably the only woman’s name he doesn’t have jotted down in his Little Black Book. Satisfied with Archie’s litany of acquaintances, Veronica wanders off and immediately bumps into a girl named Sylvia who is looking for Archie. Only in Riverdale.

There’s something satisfying about a comic that takes the simplicity of a typical Archie story and breaks it down to a level even more minimalist, with unadorned skies coloured pink and yellow, and Veronica domineering Archie with just one word and the threat of violence. Add to that a predilection for archaic references to world leaders, and you’ve got Archie digest gold.