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A few words about this presentation. The verbal part had a romantic beginning. I was obsessing over the rhythms of Korney Chukovsky\u2019s poem \u201cTelephone<\/a>.\u201d Suddenly\u2014very<\/i>\u00a0suddenly\u2014occurred to me the first rhymes of what I thought might be an existential masterpiece: \u201cLong time ago there was … a fuzz.\u201d Note the Russian accent. A great deal more came to me all at once. I was in the car. I felt frightened. I thought I might forget. So I uncapped a marker and wrote what I could on a box that was conveniently in the passenger seat. This is a true story. I kept writing more at stop lights, all the way to Chipotle. More came out on napkins there, but that stuff was trash and I cut it. Time I got to my office at school, I had \u201cThe Fuzz\u201d that you see below, intact. And I was in a sweat to share it with the world. Over the next few days, I developed illustrations. These had no merit, but I sent \u2019em to people anyway. People all over the world: little kids, infirm persons. Part two\u00a0of this story is where I turned to a real illustrator. I know her slightly. She is one of the good ones in Chicago. I had just read her graphic novel,\u00a0Chronicles of Fortune<\/i>, in transports of delight, on an airplane. I doubted she would be able to find time to do pictures for \u201cThe Fuzz,\u201d as she was six or seven months pregnant and had plenty of other things to do, but voil\u00e0, she found the time. I should like to direct your attention to the panel where nobody knows why there was a fuzz. That image is a good meme. The whole thing is memes, all the way down. What else shall I tell you? I plan on writing another piece like \u201cThe Fuzz,\u201d called \u201cThe Slime\u201d (\u201cOnce upon a time … was a slime\u201d). \u2019Til then, wishing everybody a happy 2018.<\/p>\n

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Anthony Madrid\u00a0lives in Victoria, Texas.\u00a0His second book is\u00a0<\/em>Try Never<\/a>.\u00a0He is a correspondent for the\u00a0<\/em>Daily.<\/em><\/p>\n

Coco Picard<\/a> is a writer, publisher, and curator.\u00a0She is the executive director\u00a0of the<\/em>\u00a0Green Lantern Press and the codirector of Sector 2337. She is the author of the<\/em>\u00a0graphic novel\u00a0<\/em>The Chronicles of Fortune.\u00a0<\/em>TSK, a novel inspired by the ghost of Joseph Beuys, is forthcoming from Gold Wake Press in 2019.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n

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  A few words about this presentation. The verbal part had a romantic beginning. I was obsessing over the rhythms of Korney Chukovsky\u2019s poem \u201cTelephone.\u201d Suddenly\u2014very\u00a0suddenly\u2014occurred to me the first rhymes of what I thought might be an existential masterpiece: \u201cLong time ago there was … a fuzz.\u201d Note the Russian accent. 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