Art Spiegelman on comics and juxtaposition

What is most interesting about comics for me has to do with the abstraction and structurings that come with the comics page, the fact that moments in time are juxtaposed. In a story that is trying to make chronological and coherent the incomprehensible, the juxtaposing of past and present insists that past and present are always present—one doesn’t displace the other the way it happens in film.

—Art Spiegelman, in MetaMaus