I guess I define collage broadly as the art of juxtaposition, and even though that’s hopelessly vague as an art-historical definition, it sort of makes sense when applied to comics, which are basically juxtapositions of little drawings, or juxtapositions of words and drawings, or words and a drawing, or maybe things in a single drawing.
Quote: John Hankiewicz, from an interview in Windy Corner Magazine.
Via Derik Badman, who posted a more extensive quote from the interview
Here is a collage comic I did to celebrate the 50th issue of Danish comics magazine Free Comics. Like all contributors I got to use a gold spot color, although it might not come off as such here.
The overall concept (for those non-Danish readers out there) is founded in the meanings of “free”; dictionary entries, quotations, bits of song lyrics — whatever came to mind. Oh, and a torn-up 50DKK bill sporting a portrait of Karen Blixen (who also happened to have said something about freedom)!
I first and foremost wanted to post this experiment in honor of Derik A. Badman who gave with an RT when the new site launched 
I’m assuming that, if you’re new to this site, you have come here on advice from David B. Metcalfe, Eric Orchard, or Derik Badman. These three gentlemen have been more than generous in their recent statements about my work, and I am grateful to them.
Since you have been thusly misled into believing I produce any work of artistic merit, I urge you to take a peek through the categories “Comics” and “Sketch of the day” (the menu to the right of this post. That should set the record straight.
If you’re still not convinced of my hackery after that, surf on to the workblog of my current project, Astoria and judge for yourself.
I am very sorry about the inconvenience!
Mix Tape, and the currently avaliable Astoria singles Black Sabbath (intro) and Resistansen, are reviewed over on Derik A. Badman’s terrific Madinkbeard site!
A keen observer, Derik notes: “Like the songs on a well-crafted mix tape, the images have their own separate identity, yet, by placing in juxtaposition, the reader (listener) attributes some meaning to the choices and ordering.”
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I have a load of newsfeeds that seem to just amass unread posts. They are from sites that deal in comics academia, the stuff I’d really prefer to read. Only, once the post-count starts growing, the task of catching up appears unsurmountable.
I want to give a tip of the hat (to let the bad conscience out) to Neil Cohn, Derik Badman at Comixtalk, Matthias Wivel and the industrious Eddie Campbell, adding my sincere apologies for not being able to follow their internet work closer than I do.