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Turner, founder of Last Gasp, gave an expansive oral history of underground comics from their origins in 1967–70 through the economic downturn caused by the Vietnam War and inflation that collapsed the underground market in the mid-1970s. He discussed Last Gasp's current publishing slate (ZIPPY, WEIRDO, ZAP reprints, R. Crumb), their three-tier distribution model reaching international customers, and expressed concern that the current black-and-white alternatives glut mirrored the oversaturation that had killed the underground market before.