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"He'd got some of the 'blood' on his fingers and it was like a Crayola marker had burst on his hands. It was that sort of texture and colour. He wasn't happy about it either."

The rest of it amounted to his same old Crayola contradictions — we are the strongest nation in the world with the greatest military in history that has somehow been neutered by equity and inclusion, so nobody respects us anymore?

In “Fantasmas,” from Julio Torres, odd threads involving the search for a lost earring, a worrisome birthmark and his quest to acquire “proof of existence” weave through odder diversions — a clear Crayola, dresses for toilets, a nightclub for gay hamsters, a call center staffed by mermaids, an abusive executive goldfish.

In an early scene Torres, playing a version of himself, pitches Crayola executives on a crayon for “the color clear,” which he suggests naming after the Spanish word for “ghosts.”

The Shepherd Color Company licensed YInMn blue for use in a wide range of coatings and plastics, and it also inspired a new Crayola crayon color: Bluetiful.