Why did Richard Corben stop doing underground comix?
RICHARD CORBEN: I had quit my job at Calvin with the intention of supporting myself and my family through work fromthe undergrounds. After six months, I found this was going to be impossible. Also, the undergrounds were undergoing problems – like, there were too many of them and people stopped buying them. There was an underground crash. That caused me to work exclusively for Warren. I was working with Warren for several years when I had contact with Jean-Pierre Dionnet, who started running some of my underground stuff in his magazine Metal Hurlant. It was something that had not existed before – like putting comics in a new perspective. It wasn’t that new an idea. I had discussed with Vaughn Bod on several occasions what we needed as creative cartoonists – a magazine with slick paper, reproduction quality, and fair pay rates. But that didn’t exist at the time and all the people I had spoken to did not have the money for it. Then when I finally did get a copy of Metal Hurlant, I said, “
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