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Basically, I want to create a page so that it looks like a "photograph" of a piece of paper (with text) over another piece of paper (also with text).

Is this possible in LaTeX? If yes how? I have no MWE, because I have no idea how to begin about creating something like this.... Maybe with tikz?

Here are a few examples of this style, taken from the comic book Watchmen:

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    tcolorbox supports such lifted shadows, see section 10.6.2 Lifted Shadows of the manual.
    – user121799
    Oct 25, 2018 at 5:24
  • Thanks, I'll check it out. Does it support rotation or diagonally aligned boxes?
    – johnymm
    Oct 25, 2018 at 5:36
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    Yes, see here.
    – user121799
    Oct 25, 2018 at 5:37
  • That's great! I'll play around with the options to see if I can emulate the same page style.
    – johnymm
    Oct 25, 2018 at 5:39
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    Cool. If you encounter problems, you'll have an MWE to play with.
    – user121799
    Oct 25, 2018 at 5:40

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marmot suggested the use of tcolorbox for boxes and I will add its tcbposter library to control boxes positioning on page. The advantge of this library in front of other poster solutions is that you can use with any poster size

\documentclass{article}

\usepackage[most]{tcolorbox}

\begin{document}

\begin{tcbposter}[
poster = {%showframe,
            height=3cm,spacing=2mm,rows=2},
boxes = {colframe=blue!50!black,colback=blue!50,colupper=yellow!50},
]
\posterbox{name=A,column=1,below=top}{First box}
\posterbox[rotate=-5]{name=B,column=1,between=A and bottom}{Second box}
\posterbox{name=C,column=2,above=bottom}{Third box}
\posterbox[rotate=-15]{name=D,column=2,between=top and C,span=2}{Fourth box}
\posterbox[colback=red, remember as=X]{name=E,column=3,between=top and bottom}{Fifth box}
\end{tcbposter}\\[2cm]
\begin{tcbposter}[
poster = {%showframe,
            height=4cm,spacing=1mm,rows=2},
boxes = {colframe=blue!50!black,colback=blue!50,colupper=yellow!50},
]
\posterbox[remember as=A]{name=A,column=1,below=top, span=2}{First box}
\posterbox[rotate=5, colback=orange]{name=B,column=1,between=A and bottom}{Second box}
\posterbox{name=C,column=2,above=bottom}{Third box}
\posterbox[rotate=3]{name=D,column=2,between=top and C,span=2}{Fourth box}
\posterbox[colback=green, rotate=-5]{name=E,column=3,between=top and bottom}{Fifth box}
\end{tcbposter}

\tikz[remember picture, overlay] \draw[line width=1mm, cyan] (A.north) to[out=60,in=30] (X.south);

\end{document}

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