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Here’s a thought about making comics

Allan Haverholm — Sun, 20 Nov 2011 17:59:00 +0000

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

Free 50

Allan Haverholm — Wed, 06 Oct 2010 22:00:00 +0000

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)!

Open publication – Free publishing – More collage

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

The Twitter effect

Allan Haverholm — Sat, 10 Oct 2009 22:17:20 +0000

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 review

Allan Haverholm — Sat, 18 Jul 2009 23:30:12 +0000

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.”

I have been following Derik’s blog for a year or two now, and finding him on Twitter, I was delighted that he showed some interest in the Astoria Project in time for MoCCA.

Meeting him there, we had a short chat and I abrasively pushed my entire catalog on him. It turns out, judging from the review, he didn’t mind too much

I’m looking very much forward to what he might have to say about future publications!

The unhospitable landscapes of comicology

Allan Haverholm — Fri, 25 Apr 2008 10:25:46 +0000

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.