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In Part 1 of a 2-part interview conducted in Mexico City, Bastien provides a wide-ranging overview of the Mexican comics industry: its three dominant publishers (Vid, EJEA, Novedades), the staggering estimated 1.5 billion comics sold per year, the dominance of homegrown working-class titles over licensed American product, the decline of the fumetti photonovel format, and a detailed breakdown of the distribution and returns system. He contrasts the Mexican market — cheap weekly comics sold at newsstands, read and discarded — with the American direct-market model.

Part two of a series on the Mexican comics industry, in which Bastien details his career from 1974 at Editorial Posada through editing nine weekly comics simultaneously for Novedades and developing the enter-educate character Martín Plata for Johns Hopkins University. He explains Mexico's full-script production method, the impact of the 1982 peso crisis on print runs and cover prices, and the cultural comics tradition that has eroded as the readership becomes more working-class.

In the third and final part of a multi-issue interview, Bastien recounts the history of Marvel publishing in Mexico, including failed experiments with Western titles and the challenges of maintaining Spider-Man continuity across multiple U.S. titles for Mexican readers. He discusses the growth of comics fandom in Mexico, the cultural and class distinctions between foreign licensed comics and homegrown Mexican comics, and offers reflections on storytelling fundamentals. A postscript note reveals that Bastien resigned from Novedades just before publication and had taken a new role directing a comics division at Publicaciones Continentales de México.