Andreas: The first episode of
Révélations posthumes I made in
1977 and
these were published the year after in
(A Suivre).
The contact with
François Rivière
comes from that famous day when
Jijé visited the Saint-Luc.
I had a drawing on (site-editor: in Dutch: schaafkarton), my first. That happened to be the only
one of which
Jijé had said:""That's good! Look, that is good,
elegant..." Rivière was there as well. He was looking for someone
to do the cover of a Jules Verne book and approached me. Later I asked
him to write a story for me. I believe he didn't feel like it at first,
but I persisted, so eventually he came up with a text on
H.P. Lovecraft.
After he had seen the first plates, he became more interested. At first we
worked for
Métal Hurlant, for a Lovecraft special. But when I was
finished, Riviere told me: "Métal Hurlant isn't doing well these days,
they don't pay well. Maybe it would be better to go to
(A Suivre)." I must say I didn't feel good about this thing with
Métal Hurlant. That also led to some arguments. Later I understood that
it was really something for (A Suivre). They were looking exactly for
this mixture of comics and literature. After that we continued working for
them. Métal Hurlant was a lost case in all respects.