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In a Paris interview, Mezieres traces the evolution of French and Belgian comics from their pre-war origins through the cultural watershed of 1968 and the transition from magazine serialization to the album market. He discusses his 30-year Valerian collaboration with writer Pierre Christin, the challenges of the declining European comics market, his brief forays into European film design, and the frustrations of seeing his work plagiarized. He expresses skepticism that Valerian would ever find a large American audience given its stylistic and tonal distance from American superhero comics.