diff --git a/sxiv_browser.sh b/sxiv_browser.sh
index 97868dd..ceff0bf 100755
--- a/sxiv_browser.sh
+++ b/sxiv_browser.sh
@@ -46,10 +46,35 @@ listfiles () {
     ls -dv "$(dirname "$target")"/* | egrep '.*(jpe?g|bmp|png|gif)$' | awk '{print}' ORS='\0' 
 }
 
+isarchive () {
+	FILE_PATH="${1}"
+	FILE_EXTENSION="${FILE_PATH##*.}"
+	FILE_EXTENSION_LOWER="${FILE_EXTENSION,,}"
+	MIMETYPE="$(xdg-mime query filetype "$1" )"
+	case "${FILE_EXTENSION_LOWER}" in
+	        a|ace|alz|arc|arj|bz|bz2|cab|cpio|deb|gz|jar|lha|lz|lzh|lzma|lzo|\
+        	rar|rpm|rz|t7z|tar|tbz|tbz2|tgz|tlz|txz|tZ|tzo|war|xpi|xz|Z|zip|7z)
+		return 0
+	esac
+	case "${FILE_EXTENSION_LOWER}" in
+		cbz|cbr)
+		return 0
+	esac
+	return -1
+}
+
 target="$(abspath "$1")"
+
+if isarchive "$target"; then
+	TEMPDIR=$(mktemp -d)
+	atool --quiet --extract-to=$TEMPDIR --each -- "$target" 2&> /dev/null
+	find $TEMPDIR/**/* -print0 | xargs -0 -n 1 -Ifoo cp "foo" $TEMPDIR/
+	target=$TEMPDIR/.
+fi
+
 count="$(listfiles | grep -m 1 -ZznF "$target" | cut -d: -f1)"
 if [ -n "$count" ]; then
     listfiles | xargs -s 1280000 -0 sxiv -an "$count" --
 else
-    sxiv -- "$@" # fallback
+    sxiv -- "$target" # fallback
 fi