In The Archivist, the reader finds himself inside the Pump House gallery, looking at the story of its own archivist and learning about the subject mentioned in the archives he takes care of, the rock star Hieronymous Pop. At the same time, a window is used to show the place where some events in the story happened, namely some concerts played by Pop. I therefore find myself inside the actual gallery that houses Pop’s archives and where ‘the archivist’ actually works. I can, however, go outside, where the concerts took place, and read to the strips that tell those events. While the archivist is embedded in the pages in the walls of the gallery he works in, Hieronymous Pop moves between the inside of the gallery and its gardens. Whereas Pop is
