[...] Production began in late September and the first issue appeared in January 1977. I completed more research on cultural legislation and the history of the NEA. Everyone was working more or less on his or her own texts, but everything was circulated and none of the contents of the magazine were attributed to any single author. Condé and Beveridge supplied a clutch of cartoons; Burn initiated several texts, including a very important article on artists’ organizations. It was a bit like The Fox, but with a sharper focus. The big difference was that we did not solicit contributions from individuals outside the group. This was going to be the organ of our group, and to some extent one could say that this publication project was modeled more on the publications produced by the pre-party formations with which we had contact.
