Bizarro literature can trace its roots at least as far back as the foundation of Eraserhead Press in 1999,[REF] but the description of the literature as "Bizarro" is a more recent development.
In his essay, "The Nab Gets Posthumously Bizarroized",[REF] Tom Bradley traces the genre's roots back in literary history to the time of Vladimir Nabokov's "gogolization," and his cry of despair and horror at having his central nervous system colonized: "..after reading Gogol, one's eyes become gogolized.