Appropriation art—sampling, mixing, whatever—is as old as the first time some creative person joined together scraps of ephemera into a composition. Fast-forwarding to the 1950s, the standard for comic collage art was set by Jess Collins, a Bay Area bohemian known simply as Jess. Jess meticulously de- and reconstructed Chester Gould’s ghoulishly grim gumshoe Dick Tracy strip into works of jazzy, downbeat visual bop poetry. And now Siglio Press, publishers of an indispensable
